Re: syntactically comprehensive test program

"santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
nob...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need a syntactically comprehensive test program to test a C parser
on. Does anyone know where I might find a program that uses all
syntactical elements of the language and combines them in cunning/
realistic ways so that one might be confident that a pass on this
program will mean a pass on any valid C program.

Big ask, but I thought someone might know of a suitable file(s).

gcc comes bundled with it's own test routines. I also think P.J.
Plauger's dinkumware.com offers to certify compilers and libraries for
standard conformance.

I haven't looked at gcc's test suite. I'm sure it includes tests for
gcc-specific extensions. Before using it, make sure that those tests
are cleanly separated from the ones that use only standard C.

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