***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 4.3.0 20080502 (alpha) Released - Please help us test it!

["Weddington, Eric" <eweddington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: mingw-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:mingw-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Ramiro Polla
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:14 AM
> To: mingw-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 4.3.0 20080502 (alpha) 
> Released - Please help us test it!
> 
> >The proper way to proceed on these kinds of bugs is to 
> minimize the test 
> > case, so you end up with the smallest possible run of code that 
> > demonstrates the bug.
> > 
> > The general process for runtime failures is to 1) try to 
> all get all 
> > relevant code into a single .c file that still demonstrates 
> the problem, 
> > 2) preprocess it with -E or -save-temps 3) remove all code 
> you can while 
> > retaining the bug and not causing other failures.
> 
> I was hoping I wouldn't have to go this far, since as I mentioned the 
> file is huge and it'd take me quite some time to create a minimal 
> testcase. I'm also a GSoCer, so I won't have time to work on this... 
> Sorry, but good luck on your project =)
> 

The software package 'delta' was designed to automatically reduce test
cases:
<http://delta.tigris.org/>

Works wonders for me.

Eric Weddington

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