[dmd-internals] test failures

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Wed May 25 13:36:56 PDT 2011


On 25 May 2011 05:37, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

It has recently had a --noremove option added to it which could help. Is
there anything that could be done to make it work for bugs like this?


> I tried about six times, then gave up.


-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
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