> On Mar 14, 2016, at 11:31 AM, 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.
I have a rather simple view of this sort of thing. If I feed input to a
program and the program crashes, that's always a bug. This is true even if the
input was "invalid" in some way.
That said, 700k lines in a single source file is a bit extravagant, but I see
no way that such a thing could be legitimately called "invalid". If it's all
one function (or worse yet, one basic block), I would not be at all surprised
if it exceeds a resource limit on how big a function can be, but if so, the
expected output would be an error message, not a crash.
paul
