Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: bad code suite?
Message-ID: <692@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 21:20:54 GMT
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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Keywords: compiler checkout error recovery

One reads about various organizations that develop a compiler verification
suite so that one can determine whether a compiler correctly supports the
constructs of the source language, but I wonder if anyone has ever created
a *bad* code suite, to test error recovery, quality of diagnostics, or whether
the compiler lets obscure (but invalid) constructs pass without comment?

If you know of archives of bad code (gee, that sounds like a straight line :-),
send me email, and if people express interest I will at least report on
whether anyone ever heard of such a thing's being developed.

		James Jones