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Subject: Compiler Test Generation
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Date: 12 Aug 89 01:01:52 GMT
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  Jim Marr asks about grammar-driven compiler test generation.  There
actually exist quite a few such systems.  I'm most familiar with a
system used in-house at Intermetrics in Cambridge, MA, called the TGG
(Test Generator Generator).  This tool has been used to test not only
the compiler as a whole, but also internal compiler phases.  Pardon
the mild self-advertisement, but see "Software Practice & Experience",
Jan. 1989, for an article by Bill Homer and myself that discusses our
experience, and gives references to related work.

	-- Richard
	schooler@bbn.com
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