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Date: 6 Jan 93 16:23:24 GMT
From: aio!sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov!yow@tmc.edu  (Bill Yow)
Subject: Re: Crash your compiler (Was: Ada Readability, Book Reference)
Message-ID: <1993Jan6.162324.19637@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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In article <199301051815.AA06597@cnam.cnam.fr>, bortzmeyer@cnam.cnam.fr (Stepha
ne Bortzmeyer) writes:
|> 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:

Intro stuff deleted.

|> 
|> Here are some results:
|> 
|> 1) Sony/Risc under News/OS (sort of Unix BSD) with the Alsys/Systeam compile
r:
|> 
|> % 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"?


On a Sun 2 with Sun Ada (Verdix) something like the following messages were rec
eived after about 5 minutes.

Fail to allocated 1532 bytes of memory.

Already allocated 62534400 bytes of memory.

Compile failed.


|> 
|> Stephane Bortzmeyer           Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
	
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|> 	

						Later,
						Bill Yow
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