Is test case with 700k lines of code a valid test case?

[Paulo Matos]

On 14/03/16 16:31, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a source file with 700k lines of code 99% of which are printf() statements. Compiling this test case crashes GCC 5.3.0 with segmentation fault. 
> Can such test case be considered valid or source files of size 35 MB are too much for a C compiler and it should crash? It crashes on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit with 16GB of RAM. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrey
> 

I would think it's useful but a reduced version would be great.
Can you reduce the test? If you need a hand, I can help. Contact me
directly and I will give it a try.

Cheers,
-- 
Paulo Matos