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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: When will Microsoft give us a *REAL WORLD* C Compiler
Message-ID: <1180015@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:29:00 GMT
References: <11622@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> I will agree it's frustrating, and in many cases (V5.0 for example), it's
> obvious that the compiler was shipped before it was quite ready (hence
> the page after page of readme files on the distribution disks), but 
> testing a compiler thoroughly is DAMN DIFFICULT!

Yes, but when they can't (or don't) run previous test cases through the
compiler to make sure they didn't break anything, then I say they aren't
doing anywhere close to enough.  There SHOULD be a reasonable test suit
that should be a minimum test case, you'd think.

--Bill Turner