Virtually any software running on a computer has been processed by a compiler or a
compiler-like tool. Because compilers are such a crucial piece of infrastructure for building …

Compilers, as one of the most important infrastructure of today's digital world, are expected
to be trustworthy. Different testing techniques are developed for testing compilers …

Software testing is an important and critical phase of the application software development
life cycle. Testing is a time consuming and costly stage that requires a high degree of …

Compilers should be correct. To improve the quality of C compilers, we created Csmith, a
randomized test-case generation tool, and spent three years using it to find compiler bugs …

Compiler testing is a crucial way of guaranteeing the reliability of compilers (and software
systems in general). Many techniques have been proposed to facilitate automated compiler …

Compilers are critical, widely-used complex software. Bugs in them have significant impact,
and can cause serious damage when they silently miscompile a safety-critical application …

Compiler bugs are extremely harmful, but are notoriously difficult to debug because compiler
bugs usually produce few debugging information. Given a bug-triggering test program for a …

In a C compiler, function calls are difficult to implement correctly because they must respect
a platform-specific calling convention. But they are governed by a simple invariant …

Compilers should not crash and they should not miscompile applications. Random testing is
an effective method for finding compiler bugs that have escaped other kinds of testing. This …

Good compiler diagnostic warnings facilitate software development as they indicate likely
programming mistakes or code smells. However, due to compiler bugs, the warnings may be …