Csmith - C compiler stress test

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 13.04.2011 20:57, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:45:17 -0400, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/13/2011 7:13 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>> I've just come across Csmith:
>>>
>>> http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/
>>>
>>> The tool randomly generates valid C99 code to stress test C compilers
>>> and has
>>> found 350+ bugs in GCC/LLVM alone over the past couple of years. It
>>> might be
>>> interesting to run dmc through this, and maybe adapt the tool to
>>> generate D test
>>> cases?
>>>
>>
>> I talked to one of the others, he didn't think it would be that hard
>> to adapt it to D, but we'd have to do it ourselves.
>>
>> I think this could be fairly valuable for D compilers.
>>
>> Anyone looking for a project?
>>
> 
> As much as this might be a fun project, and might find bugs for D, I
> have to point out that there are *plenty* of bugs in dmd that need
> fixing.  Any would be takers for this project should also consider
> lending a hand at fixing existing bugs.  Then again, fixing dmd bugs
> might be less fun, so I could understand if someone preferred not to.
> 
> I think this tool would be great once dmd is fully functional.
> 
> -Steve

As developing it probably needs some time anyway it may make sense to
start developing it before dmd is mostly bugfree.

Cheers,
- Daniel