I don't speak with any community authority - I think your test tool is misconfigured then. I don't see any pragmatic reason to generate such a test. It's unlikely to mirror any real world code and artificial test cases like this, at best only serve as some arbitrary data point.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Andrey Tarasevich <tarasev...@cs.uni-saarland.de> wrote: > >> On 14 Mar 2016, at 16:39, C Bergström <cbergst...@pathscale.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Andrey Tarasevich >> <tarasev...@cs.uni-saarland.de> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a source file with 700k lines of code 99% of which are printf() >>> statements. Compiling this test case crashes GCC 5.3.0 with segmentation >>> fault. >>> Can such test case be considered valid or source files of size 35 MB are >>> too much for a C compiler and it should crash? It crashes on Ubuntu 14.04 >>> 64bit with 16GB of RAM. >> >> Sorry I can't help, but troll reply.. >> ------------ >> If you're intentionally combining everything into a single source for >> optimization reasons - you can expect it to really stress and hit many >> problems in the compiler. >> >> If your code is just extremely poorly written or not organized well - >> I'd encourage you to both file bug reports (of a more reduced nature >> than 700ksloc) and refactor things so that it's better designed. > > Not that I intentionally written such code, but it was automatically > generated by test tool.
