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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: C-Compiler Bug V2.2
Summary: known bug
Message-ID: <732@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 11:11:57 GMT
References: <395@materna.uucp>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <395@materna.uucp>, jh@materna.uucp (Juergen Hackenbroich) writes:
> 
> When developping a program I accidently wrote [code which attempted to use
> a void value returned by a function]...

This is a known bug; it will be fixed come next release.  I've seen literature
on generating test cases (and even wrote something once to generate random
sentences of a given input grammar), but in some sense I wonder if it's
harder to automatically generate something buggy!

		James Jones