Re: binary search debugging of compilers

gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Sat, 20 May 2023 20:20:56 -0700 (PDT)

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From: gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 20:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
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Keywords: debug, history
Posted-Date: 21 May 2023 14:25:53 EDT
In-Reply-To: 23-05-025

On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 3:05:13 PM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <864-11...@kylheku.com> schrieb:
> > Oh, stepping doubles with ++ is, I would say, not *that* uncommon.
> > I doubt that if such a bug were introduced as an easter egg into GCC,
> > it would go very long without being discovered by the FOSS distros and
> > other downstream users.


> It would very likely be caught by regression testing. GCC has an
> extensive test suite, and it is a requirement that this is run
> before submitting a patch.


I believe it was Borland Turbo C, maybe 2.0.


At one point, I had a few different C compilers for MS-DOS, not so long
before I went to using OS/2. It seems that Borland also had compilers
for OS/2, but I don't remember using those.

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