[cfe-dev] RFC: Clang Automatic Bug Reporting

[Collin Winter]

Hey Daniel,

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
>>> and eventually could use a Clang based delta tool to minimize the input source.
>>
>> This is something I am very interested in working on and have thought
>> of before. The basic plan was to first figure out which part of clang
>> was crashing, and then use the information in the layers above that to
>> guide the delta algorithm. This part could actually be implemented now
>> as either part of the driver, or as a separate tool and be useful
>> right away.
>
> Yes, definitely, this is a very worthy project. I have an
> implementation of the delta algorithm ready and waiting in llvm/ADT,
> and have bits and pieces of a Clang based delta lying around on my
> hard drive, but nothing concrete enough to be worth checking in. If
> someone else wanted to work on this it would make me very happy. :)

Could you put these bits and pieces in source control? I've been
planning to work on a similar tool for Google's compiler teams, and it
would be great if we could collaborate on this.

Thanks,
Collin Winter