CVSA™ PERENNIAL C COMPILER VALIDATION SUITE
Current Release: |
Test Cases: |
Support/Updates: |
Version 6.8, May 1999 |
56,000+ |
One year |
Description: CVSA is the most comprehensive
and thorough C compiler conformance test suite available worldwide.
Introduced in 1984, it was originally based on the first edition of The C
Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, of AT&T
Bell Laboratories. CVSA now covers the original C language,
and all of the ISO/IEC C Standard, including the most recent changes for
C9X. CVSA also includes all of the tests contained in
ACVS. With over 56,000 test cases, in 40+ Mbytes of code,
CVSA provides conformance testing for the following
standards/publications.
1. |
International Standard for Programming Language-C,
ISO/IEC 9899:1990 |
2. |
ISO C Standard: Technical Corrigenda 1 &
2. |
3. |
ISO C Standard, Amendment 1: 1995 (which added
multibyte and wide character extensions to the C language) |
4. |
New features being added to the C language by the
ISO C Standards Committee, commonly referred to as C9X. |
5. |
The original C language bible: The C Programming
Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis
Ritchie. |
Certification/Branding: Conformance testing programs
officially awarding a Certificate of Validation for the first three
standards named above (i.e., the current ISO-C Standard) are available
from Perennial.
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