Defuzzed: a fuzzer for D compilers

Johan Engelen via D.gnu d.gnu at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 3 13:07:33 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 17:05:56 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 17:29:53 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan 
> wrote:
>> Please let me know if you think this could be a valuable tool.
>
> I am really thrilled to see effort being put towards more 
> testing tools, and I'm sure that most other LDC devs are as 
> well.
>
> There are so many opportunities which remain unexplored simply 
> because nobody took the time to actively try and break the 
> current D compilers yet. ICE fuzz-testing like this is a first 
> step, and I'm pretty sure that csmith-style comparison of 
> executable results between the three compilers will yield lots 
> of low-hanging fruit as well.
>
> Please do keep the LDC community posted about your progress too!

+1 !

There is a "dsmith" tool out there?! Didn't know about it, that's 
great news!


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