SPECIAL NOTICE: Q-TOOLS Due 081196. POC Laura Ippolito (301) 975-3340. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information, on behalf of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), about software diagnostic tools. NRC examines source code in nuclear power plant safety systems during the licensing process. NRC is interested in finding commercially available tools that can locate and provide information about the following programming practices that may be used in C and C++ source code: dynamic memory allocation, memory paging and swapping, recursive function calls, control flow complexity, interface ambiguities, dynamic binding, tasking, interrupt driven processing, built-in functions, compiled libraries, mixed language programming, obscure or subtle programming constructs, dispersion of related elements, literals, global variables, complexity of interfaces, anonymous data types, hardware dependencies, parameter passing to routines, data typing, class library size, operator overloading, functions of procedures with side effects, reserved words. If you would like more information please send email to tools@nist.gov before August 30, 1996. If you do not have Internet access and would like more information, please respond by letter to Laura Ippolito at NIST, Bldg. 820, Rm. 517, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, and include your name, organization, division, address, phone, fax, and the types of tools your company produces.

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