Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: gah4 Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: binary search debugging of compilers Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 20:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <23-05-027@comp.compilers> References: <23-05-003@comp.compilers> <23-05-005@comp.compilers> <23-05-006@comp.compilers> <23-05-008@comp.compilers> <23-05-011@comp.compilers> <23-05-012@comp.compilers> <23-05-015@comp.compilers> <23-05-017@comp.compilers> <23-05-020@comp.compilers> <23-05-025@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="38487"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: debug, history Posted-Date: 21 May 2023 14:25:53 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <23-05-025@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3483 On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 3:05:13 PM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote: > Kaz Kylheku <864-11...@kylheku.com> schrieb: > > Oh, stepping doubles with ++ is, I would say, not *that* uncommon. > > I doubt that if such a bug were introduced as an easter egg into GCC, > > it would go very long without being discovered by the FOSS distros and > > other downstream users. > It would very likely be caught by regression testing. GCC has an > extensive test suite, and it is a requirement that this is run > before submitting a patch. I believe it was Borland Turbo C, maybe 2.0. At one point, I had a few different C compilers for MS-DOS, not so long before I went to using OS/2. It seems that Borland also had compilers for OS/2, but I don't remember using those.