99% of 700k, 693k of printf(), is it ascii art ?
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> Le 14 Mar 2016 à 16:42, paul_kon...@dell.com a écrit :
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>
>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Andrey Tarasevich
>> <tarasev...@cs.uni-saarland.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a source file with 700k lines of code 99% of which are printf()
>> statements. Compiling this test case crashes GCC 5.3.0 with segmentation
>> fault.
>> Can such test case be considered valid or source files of size 35 MB are too
>> much for a C compiler and it should crash? It crashes on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
>> with 16GB of RAM.
>
> I have a rather simple view of this sort of thing. If I feed input to a
> program and the program crashes, that's always a bug. This is true even if
> the input was "invalid" in some way.
>
> That said, 700k lines in a single source file is a bit extravagant, but I see
> no way that such a thing could be legitimately called "invalid". If it's all
> one function (or worse yet, one basic block), I would not be at all surprised
> if it exceeds a resource limit on how big a function can be, but if so, the
> expected output would be an error message, not a crash.
>
> paul
>
