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On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 13:13 Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the replies and pointers.
>
> As far as 'git bisect' is concerned, we have found 'git bisect'
> incredibly useful too, of course. It is clearly another instance of
> binary search to find bugs, but it is binary search over time, while
> the system I described is binary search over the program being
> compiled. "What change broke the compiler?" vs "What code does that
> change miscompile?". The two are independent and complementary.


As for a binary search over the program being compiled, LLVM has a
mechanism to bisect optimization passes. Not exactly the same, but worth
noting.

https://llvm.org/docs/OptBisect.html

Also, Viet is still in compilers at Coherent Logix.

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Re: binary search debugging of compilers Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> - 2023-05-17 10:55 -0400
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Cameron McInally <cameron.mcinally@nyu.edu> - 2023-05-17 13:40 -0400
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-17 18:47 +0000
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-05-18 10:50 +0000
    Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-19 03:44 +0000
    binary search debugging of compilers Cliff Click <cclick0@gmail.com> - 2023-05-19 10:47 -0700
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump) - 2023-05-20 18:04 +0000

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