Re: Compiler stress tests?

gah@u.washington.edu (G. Herrmannsfeldt)
16 Jan 1997 11:11:51 -0500

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From: gah@u.washington.edu (G. Herrmannsfeldt)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Jan 1997 11:11:51 -0500
Organization: University of Washington
References: 97-01-020 97-01-024 97-01-033 97-01-082
Keywords: C, testing

I used to hear, int the days of punched cards, that some compiler
testers would get cards from the recycle bins and feed them to the
compiler. Just random collections of possibly error containing
statements, unrelated to each other.


-- glen
[I can believe it. There was a famous story of a bug report to IBM that the
Fortran compiler would fail if they fed it some input including a non-text
character that could only be keypunched with great difficulty. The response
was "so don't do that." -J]
--

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