[cfe-dev] A tool for generating reduced headers for test cases(delta debugging)

[Nuno Lopes]

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Nikita Zhuk <nikita at zhuk.fi> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Several clang analysis test cases written in ObjC contain the
>> following comment line in their header: "These declarations were
>> reduced using Delta-Debugging from Foundation.h on Mac OS X.". Are
>> there some instructions about tools which should be used to generate
>> such reduced headers?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the steps are just to generate a full file with
> clang -E, then reduce the file using Delta (http://delta.tigris.org/).
> But Ted should be able to comment with more complete steps.

I'm not Ted :), but I've attached 2 script that I regularly use. I have 
more, which have other combinations.
For example, imagine you want to reduce a test case that crashes clang. 
After the preprocessing, you would run (several times):
multidelta -level=x ./crash_clang a.c

the level (x) is a number between e.g. 0 and 10. Check the delta manual for 
how to best pick up a number.

Now suppose clang triggers a error that gcc does not. Then you can use the 
clang_error script (provided you changed it to grep for your specific 
error).

Nuno 
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