Re: Verifying a compiler

Taylor Hutt <t.hutt@worldnet.att.net>
20 Jun 2000 02:49:33 -0400

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From: Taylor Hutt <t.hutt@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Jun 2000 02:49:33 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 00-06-056
Keywords: testing, comment

Steven Carroll <scarroll@csrd.uiuc.edu> writes:


> I'm looking for a test suite to insure the correctness of a compiler
> that handles C, C++, Fortran, and Java with emphasis on C and FORTRAN.
> Does anyone have any experience using GCC's test suite with a
> different compiler? Can anyone reccomend a more directed suite?


Plum Hall (language compilance)


There is a competitor to Plum Hall, but I can't remember the name
right now.


Nullstone (optimizations / code generation)


> FORTRAN anyone?


No idea.
[When I wrote an F77 compiler 20 years ago, there were some tests from
NTIS which weren't great but at least picked out some of the more
egregious errors in my compiler. -John]

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