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It's a decent technique to check on compilers, but it's older than that. Arial Faigon discusses that approach in an undated blog post: http://www.yendor.com/tes
by dwheeler 7y ago
It's a decent technique to check on compilers, but it's older than that. Arial Faigon discusses that approach in an undated blog post:
http://www.yendor.com/testing/#compiler http://www.yendor.com/testing/#compiler
I don't know the date, but I cited it in my 2009 dissertation:
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/html/wheeler-trusting-trust-ddc.html https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/html/wheele...
- ce4 7y agoArchive.org has copies as early as 09/2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000919193619/http://www.yendor.com/testing/#compiler https://web.archive.org/web/20000919193619/http://www.yendor...
- etagobla 7y agoI'm surprised it warrants a blogpost specifically aimed at compilers. People test against simulations all the time.
- pascal_cuoq 7y agoThe original article that describes differential fuzzing for compilers is from 1998. In addition, that article is extremely readable: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fc88/1e8d0432ea8e4dd5fda4979243cac5e4b9e3.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fc88/1e8d0432ea8e4dd5fda497...