On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:19:40PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > > To do anything about a bug, the developers will need a complete test > > case that produces the bug. Changes to the test case that *don't* > > produce a bug are not interesting. > > If it is worth chasing. It is not worth chasing if someone readily > recognizes the > symptom and says, "Yes, I've fixed something like that."
It rarely works that way; you will almost never be so lucky. > trim of the sources yielded something that did not fault, creating something > that still fails will wind up taking serious work. It would need a reasonable > prospect of being useful before I would afford the time. Thanks - Bruce There are ways of doing this automatically. See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/A_guide_to_testcase_reduction
