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Re: Test cases
- From: Thomas Neumann <tneumann at pi3 dot informatik dot uni-mannheim dot de>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:22:59 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Test cases
Hi,
> How does it work? (Just the rough idea! I didn't find anything in the
> man page or the code itself.)
it tries to find the minimal source code that produces the same compiler
output as the original code (it adds #line statements while minimizing to
guarantee identical output). It first deletes single lines and then chunks
of code (two passes, both backwards). It should work fine with
gcc3.3/Linux.
Thomas