Five Testers From VC

[Ron] A couple of questions from Woon Kiat to my previous post on the different types of testing we do on our C++ compiler: >>Is understanding the inner working of a compiler vital to compiler testing? I would say so, at least at some level...

[Ron] One of the major new features in the area of code generation for the upcoming Whidbey release of VC++ is our new floating point code generation model. One of the members of my team, Eric Fleegal, has written a nice white paper about this feature...

[Michael] I've got a circuitious style - so if you're impatient, you may want to skip this thread. I'm going to talk about one of the big reasons I'm participating in this blog, and what I'm hoping to gain from it. I'm also big on analogies and stories...

[Ron] Moving on from my previous post , I’d like to start talking about how we approach testing the C++ compiler. I’ll outline the three main approaches we use and in the next three posts I’ll drill down into each one in detail. A...