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Subject: Compiler Testing
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 21:42:00 EST
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[from harvard!seismo!munnari!moncskermit.oz!roland (Roland Yap)]

I have *almost* finished writing a C compiler and am interested in 
obtaining benchmarks and tests for it.  

There are 2 sorts of tests which would be useful:
1. Tests for validating a C compiler
2. Efficiency tests to test the quality of code generation

Test 1 should be fairly automatic so that it can be run as a sort of 
diagnostic but should also be amenable to hand inspection.  Similarly 
test 2 really needs to be inspected by hand unless one is interested 
in comparing 2 different compilers for the same machine.  

What experiences have people had with testing?

	Roland.

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