Re: Testing C Compiler

Mayan Moudgill <mayan@bestweb.net>
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:48:24 -0400

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From: Mayan Moudgill <mayan@bestweb.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:48:24 -0400
Organization: BestWeb.net
References: 08-03-118
Keywords: testing
Posted-Date: 06 Apr 2008 01:19:18 EDT

camille@bluegrass.net wrote:
> I'm trying to find out if I can find standardized tests that will
> help, or if I'm just going to have to download every program I can
> find and compile it to see what happens.


Short answer: you have to go buy the test-suites. There are 4 of them
out there: ACE, Perennial, Plum-Hall, and Nullstone. I vaguely remember
that there was one from some indian company, as well.


The gcc torture tests suite is not too good at validating conformance,
unfortunately.


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