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Re: binary search debugging of compilers

From gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: binary search debugging of compilers
Date 2023-05-20 20:20 -0700
Organization Compilers Central
Message-ID <23-05-027@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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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.

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binary search debugging of compilers Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> - 2023-05-12 13:59 -0400
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-13 03:20 +0000
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2023-05-13 04:47 -0700
    Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-14 02:49 +0000
      Re: binary search debugging of compilers gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2023-05-14 13:38 -0700
        Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-15 21:52 +0000
          Re: binary search debugging of compilers gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2023-05-16 23:52 -0700
            Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-17 18:28 +0000
              Re: binary search debugging of compilers gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2023-05-17 15:23 -0700
                Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-19 03:21 +0000
                Re: binary search debugging of compilers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2023-05-19 21:59 +0000
                Re: binary search debugging of compilers gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2023-05-20 20:20 -0700
                Re: Old C compilers, binary search debugging of compilers Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2023-05-22 09:05 +0200
              binary search debugging of compilers Max B <tekk.nolagi@gmail.com> - 2023-05-19 16:31 -0500
  Re: binary search debugging of compilers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2023-05-14 19:59 +0000
    Re: binary search debugging of compilers Cameron McInally <cameron.mcinally@nyu.edu> - 2023-05-14 23:28 -0400
    Re: binary search debugging of compilers Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-15 21:35 +0000

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