Proj CMI Paper Reading: Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers

Abstract

Motivation

“Compilers should be correct.”
Motivating Example-未定义行为

int foo(){signed char x = 1; unsigned char y = 255; return x < y;}

该函数在ubuntu patched版本下会返回1，而正常逻辑应该是0。

为此本文： Generates “random” C programs

  • Covers a large subset of C
  • Avoids undefined behaviors
  • Avoids unspecified behaviors

生成目标：

  1. Well-formed and single meaning programs
  2. Maximize Expressiveness

Included & Excluded

Included

  • Function definitions
  • Global and local variable definitions
  • Control flow (if-else, function calls, for, return, break, continue, goto)
  • Signed and unsigned integers
  • Arithmetic, logical, and bitwise operations
  • struct: nested and bitwidth fields
  • Arrays of and pointers to all supported types
  • const and volatile

Excluded

  • Strings
  • Dynamic memory allocation
  • floating-point types
  • unions
  • recursion
  • function pointers

效果

  • 3 years, 325 bug reports, All compilers had bugs: crashed or generated wrong code
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