On 2023-11-02 15:25:33 +0000, Suhail wrote: > [..] > > The hypothetical test derivation leaves the build artifact unchanged, > but does communicate some "side" information. It's like a fixed-output > derivation carrying some metadata (further elaboration below).
I am not aware of any, but I wonder if there are test suites that actually modify the built binary, for example by patching a bool flag `was_tested' to #t. Runtime behavior could then differ based on the flag. Do you have some ideas how to detect/deal with this? T. -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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