ANSI compliant compilers [Was Re: Re: How ANSI is TC++?]

[Steve Clarke]

In article <1990Oct26.162147.8767 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>In article <5940044 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> jamiller at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Jim Miller) writes:
>>
>>In the area of ANSI compliance in other reviews (I can't remember where)
>>TC++ came out ahead of a number of other C compilers including (*IF* I
>>remember correctly) MS-C 6.0.
>>
>Microsoft is not ANSI compliant. They lack a few of the obscure
>things like locale support. I believe that to date there are no
>ANSI compliant compilers. Microsoft is extremely close.
>
>Doug McDonald

The BSI (British Standards Institution) has within the last few weeks announced
an *independent* validation service for ANSI C compilers, based on the Plum-Hall
C Validation Suite (this is an extremely exacting test suite for complete ANSI
conformance).

Currently only three companies have dared to apply for independent validation,
and all three have passed.  These companies are (not surprisingly) all
British: JPI (for the TopSpeed C compiler for MS-DOS), Knowledge Software Ltd.
(for a range of C source checkers), and INMOS (for a range of C compilers
targetted at transputers).

The BSI Validation Service is also recognised by IMQ (an Italian standards
organisation) and AFNOR (a French standards organisation). 

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