Autochron

Just on a lark, I was wondering if anyone here has "successfully" crashed gcc...

I managed to do it once a few years ago (one of the later 2.x versions) by using the following code:

--- Cut Here ---
a[i];
--- Cut Here ---

That's it -- no declarations or anything.

Is it just me, or is it a perverse sort of ego trip to have found a bug in a program (esp. a compiler) as rigorously tested as gcc is?

Just a thought.

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welshbyte

At the risk of losing respect, i'd say it was a perverse ego trip

Try crashing microsoft programs, you'd most probably have a higher success rate

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roboshark

Hehe, I've crashed gcc, but I must say, I never saw much excitement in it. Definitely no ego trip. I was more irritated at the fact that it wasn't compiling my fricking program!

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