Fuzzed - a program to find DMDFE parser crash

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Saturday, 15 December 2018 at 11:29:45 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> Fuzzed [1] is a simple fuzzer for the D programming language. 
> It allows to detect sequences of tokens that crash the parser. 
> While the D front end is not yet used to make tools, if this 
> ever happens the parser will have to accept invalid code. As 
> experienced with dparse, invalid code tend to crash more a 
> parser because of a cognitive bias that lead us, "hoomans", to 
> prove that things work rather than the opposite.
>

Nice. In my experience fuzzing parses works very well. I have 
good memories with afl. So much so that I once wrote a wrapper 
around it to handle running it distributed.

See https://github.com/skoppe/afl-dist
Could use a readme and a how-to though.