[HN Gopher] Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers (2011)...
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Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers (2011) [pdf]
Author : djoldman
Score : 22 points
Date : 2025-09-27 10:59 UTC (3 days ago)
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| pfdietz wrote:
| The Csmith paper. The follow-on paper about Creduce is also worth
| reading. Creduce takes valid programs and reduces them to smaller
| valid programs, using some predicate (does this shell script
| finish with an error code?). This allows hits by Csmith to be
| greatly minimized automatically. Maintaining validity during
| shrinking is the central problem.
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