C-Compiler Validation Suites

[Wayne A. Christopher]

In article <1841 at utah-gr.UUCP>, thomas at utah-gr.UUCP writes:
> Yes, and we have found bugs in several systems' handling of floating
> point numbers because of exactly this attitude.  Compilation of the
> kernel is NOT sufficient valication of the compiler!

Try compiling SPICE 3 -- there's plenty of floating point to excercise your
compiler.  Of course, since we have had to put in lots of work-arounds to
avoid compiler problems we have already encountered, if you have the same
ones you may not find them this way...

	Wayne