From: jonathan@nitrogen.astro.indiana.edu   
      
   Sid Touati  wrote:   
   > How can a simple programmer detect a bug in a compiler ? is there some   
   > well known verification techniques ?   
      
   There are some useful ideas in   
     Flash Sheridan   
     "Practical testing of a C99 compiler using output comparison"   
     Software--Practice and Experience volume 37 (2007), pages1475--1488   
      
   ciao,   
      
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   -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"    
      Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA   
      "C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might   
       technically exist but they're not nearly as much fun." -- Nikolai Irgens   
   [Too bad SPE now costs $3278/yr. -John]   
      
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