Hi,Csmith does not try to avoid generating endless loops, this is not a bug, it's a design decision. How long you run the programs is up to you but a few seconds would be a reasonable amount of time to let a program run before killing it.
Alas, we're not working on Csmith much any longer since the students who did the coding have all long-since graduated.
John On 1/26/23 9:50 PM, Detlef Riekenberg wrote:
How long do you run the compiles programs? With my default of 8sec, some programs produce timeouts, and with 30sec, the timeouts are stil hit. (tcc and gcc 11.3) example seed between 0 and 20: 5, 8, 18, 20 Oh. Still the same timeouts when using 60sec Does csmith tries to avoid endless loops? Then this seems to be a bug, otherwise this is an idea for an enhancement. --bye bye ... Detlef