[Haskell-cafe] Compiler's bane

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon Sep 1 15:38:56 EDT 2008


On 2008 Sep 1, at 14:47, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> I wonder - how do the GHC developers check that GHC works properly?  
> (I guess by compiling stuff and running it... It's a bit harder to  
> check that a lambda interpretter is working right.)


GHC has a comprehensive test suite (not included in the source tarball  
or the default checkout but easily checked out atop GHC).

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