TECHNICAL ISO/IEC REPORT TR 10034 First edition 1990-04-01 Guidelines for the preparation of conformity clauses in programming language standards Lignes directrices pourla preparation de chapitres sur la conformite dans des normesconcernantdes langagesdeprogrammation Reference number ISO/IEC/TR 10034 : 1990 (E) Copyright Intermational Organization for Standardization cense with IS permitted without license from IHS lcer 10:32:19 MD ISO/IEC/TR10034:1990 (E) TABLEOF CONTENTS Page FOREWORD ii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 SCOPE 1 3 DEFINITIONS 2 3.1 CONFIGURATION 222 3.2 PROCESSOR 3.3 SUBSET 3.4 EXTENSION 2222222 3.5 IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED 3.6 ERROR 3.7 DEPRECATED LANGUAGE ELEMENT 3.8 CONFORMITY CLAUSE 3.9 CONFORMING PROGRAM 3.10 CONFORMING PROCESSOR 4 THE GUIDELINES 2 4.1 REQUIREMENTS OF A CONFORMING PROCESSOR 33 4.1.1 Documentation 4.1.2 Processor Dependencies 4 4.1.3 Errors 5 4.1.4 Extensions to the Language 5 4.1.5 Subsets of the Language 6 4.1.6 Deprecated Language Elements 6 4.2 REQUIREMENTS SOFA CONFORMINGPROGRAM 6 ANNEX A 7 @ISO/IEC1990 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISO/IEC Copyright Office·Case postale 56.CH-1211Geneve20.Switzerland Printed in Switzerland No reproductic cing permitted without license from IHS ISO/IEC/TR10034:1990(E) Foreword ISO(the InternationalOrganizationfor Standardization)andIEC(theInternational Electrotechnical Commission) together form a system for worldwide standardization as a whole. National bodies that are members of iSo or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particuiar fields of technical activity. Iso and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other internationai organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISo and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee,ISO/IECJTC1. The main task of a technical committee is to prepare International Standards but in exceptional circumstances, the publication of a Technical Report of one of the foiiowing types may be proposed: type 1, when the required support within the technical committee cannot be obtained for the publication of an International Standard, despite repeated efforts; type 2, when the subject is still under technical development or where for any other reason there is the future but not immediate possibility of an agree- ment on an International Standard; type 3, when a technical committee has collected data of a different kind from that which is normally published as an international Standard ("state of the art", for example). Technicai Reports of types 1 and 2 are subject to review within three years of pubica- tion, to decide whether they can be transformed into International Standards. Technical Reports of type 3 do not necessarity have to be reviewed until the data they provide are considered to be no longer valid or useful. iSO/iEC/TR 10034, which is a Technicai Report of type 3, was prepared by ISO/IEC JTC1, Information technology. This Technical Report is complementary to ISO/IEC/TR 10176, Guidelines for the preparation of programming language standards, which includes guidelines for the preparation of conformity clauses. This Technical Report provides more detailed infor- mation on thetopic. An important aspect of conformity with a standard is the methods of testing for it, and this is dealt with in ISO/IEC/TR 9547, Programming language processors - Test methods- Guidelinesfortheirdevelopment andacceptability. ili Copyright Intemational Organization for Standardization permited without license from IHS