ADA SOFTWARE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information, on behalf of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), about software diagnostic tools. The NRC examines source code in nuclear power plant safety systems during the licensing process. The NRC is interested in finding commercially available tools that can locate and provide information about the following programming practices that may be used in Ada source code: Dynamic Memory Allocation, Control Flow Complexity, Initialization, Interface Ambiguities, Data Typing, Program Instrumentation, Class Library Size, Dynamic Binding, Operator Overloading, Tasking, Interrupt Driven Processing, Automatic Memory Management, Local Handling of Exceptions, External Flow Control, Uniform Exception Handling, Input and Output Data Checking, Compiled Libraries, Generic Units, Mixed Language Programming, Obscure or Subtle Programming Constructs, Literals, Renaming, Global Variables, Complexity of Interfaces, Single Purpose Function andProcedures, Single Purpose Variables. If you would like more information please send E-mail to tools@nist.gov before January 29, 1997. This information is specific to ADA; vendors who previously responded with information on C and C++ tools need to respond again. If you do not have Internet access, please respond by letter to Laura Ippolito at NIST, Building 820, Room 517, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899, and include your name, organization, division, address, phone, fax, and the types of tools your company produces. WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@mailserver3.nist.gov.

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