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Re: [csmith-dev] Any tricks for narrowing down GCC bugs to avoid duplications?

Another thing you can do is before submitting to GCC (or LLVM), take a quick look at all open bugs submitted by me. For random reasons I do all of our bug reporting. 

John



On 04/21/2011 01:08 PM, Arthur O'Dwyer wrote:

Hi, csmith-dev!  Long-time blog reader, first-time Csmith user.

My slightly-off-topic question is, does anyone have any specific
recommendations to avoid filing duplicate bugs against GCC?
My current list is pretty short:
  * Use a bleeding-edge SVN checkout of GCC
  * Check http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/gcc-bugs.html for any unfixed
bugs that look similar
  * Search the GCC Bugzilla for likely keywords
  * And of course try not to cover well-trodden ground in the first place.

I just filed my first Csmith-generated bug report:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48714
Is there anything I could have done that would have made it better?
Anything that's cost-effective for an inexperienced GCC hacker, that
is.

If you know something that's relevant if you replace "GCC" by "LLVM"
in the above text, that's okay too. :)

Thanks,
-Arthur