[dmd-internals] test failures

[Don Clugston]

On 24 May 2011 19:32, Robert <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:
> On 24 May 2011 08:18, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Works now, thanks! That has helped enormously in getting a reduced
>> test case. Bug 6049. Fix is in my open CTFE pull request.
>> Still took about six times as long to reduce the test case, as it did
>> to fix the bug. Would have been about ten times as long, without this
>> tool.
>
> You may find DustMite useful Don, not sure if you've noticed the other posts
> about it:
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite
> It's written in D and designed for D, helped me narrow down a testcase
> (5000LoC -> 80LoC) in about 10 minutes with no intervention on my part.

Yes, I tried it, but unfortunately it doesn't work for bugs like this
one. It generates exactly the same error message, but it's not the
correct bug.
I tried about six times, then gave up.