Crash your compiler (Was: Ada Readability, Book Reference)

[pa.dec.com!cnam.cnam.fr!bortz@decuac.dec.com (Stephane Bortzmeyer)]

In article <1993Jan5.115003.29978@sei.cmu.edu>,
progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers) writes:
> In article <1993Jan4.174424.5699@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
(Michael Feldman) writes:
...
> >This is interesting. I take it, then, that 1.0/3.0 will be flagged by
> >the compiler, because - unless a rational representation is being
> >used, which is always possible, I suppose - there aren't enough bits
> >in a megabyte to evaluate it exactly. Do compilers use rationals
> >for this?  I'll be back later, after a test or two of this!
...
> About seven years ago I saw this program (I think by John Squires) on
> info-ada (this is a reconstruction from memory). See how long it takes 
> your compiler to give up on it -- use a batch queue if you can, especially 
> on a virtual memory machine.  If it does eventually compile, you can just 
> add lines until it won't...

Here are some results:

1) Sony/Risc under News/OS (sort of Unix BSD) with the Alsys/Systeam compiler:

% time ada.c ../killer.ada
Compiling:  /users/labinf/bortz/ada/essais/killer.ada
line 0, col 1, restriction:
         Overflow of digit pool in constant table
compiler error at end of compilation unit:
         Compilation in SEMANTIC aborted
PROCEDURE  KILLER
  **** Number of Errors              :     2
29.7u 0.5s 0:39.54 76.6% 337+196k 72+9io 354pf+0w

(Thirty CPU seconds before giving up.)

2) DECstation under Ultrix (sort of Unix BSD) with the DEC compiler:

% time ada.c ../killer.ada

(Twenty minutes of CPU time later, the experimentator went to bed.)

Does anyone have such a collection of "compiler killers"?

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