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

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 18 March 2016 at 12:45, Paulo Matos wrote:
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> On 14/03/16 16:31, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>> Andrey
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> 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.

It's probably crashing because it's too large, so if you reduce it
then it won't crash.