Revised: Request for Information-Software Diagnostics Tools

[Dolores Wallace]

This is the version of the Request for Information that appeared
in Commerce Business Daily on July 17. The announcement in this
newsgroup earlier today was a first draft of this and was posted
by mistake.

Request For Information on
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. 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 or procedures with side effects,
reserved words.

If you would like more information please send email to to...@nist.gov
before August 30, 1996.