david_chisnall on Nostr: npub1qu56p…wqel2 In a past life, I worked on a compiler that the DoE used. I never ...
npub1qu56p82wp0ucpu7jkwcvvtfdc7wcmuqkdrqvzpkwl78rdkkckucqswqel2 (npub1qu5…qel2) In a past life, I worked on a compiler that the DoE used. I never had to handle their bug reports and was quite glad. The flow was:
Them: It doesn't work.
Us: In what way?
Them: That's classified. The wrong number comes out of the program.
Us: What program?
Them: That's classified.
Us: Can you send us a reduced test case?
Six months pass while the reduced test case is declassified, which involves review that it does not leak anything about the Super Secret Program that it's based on.
The reduced test case does not trigger the bug. Apparently the original did, but en route to being declassified the parts that triggered the bug were removed.
Them: It doesn't work.
Us: In what way?
Them: That's classified. The wrong number comes out of the program.
Us: What program?
Them: That's classified.
Us: Can you send us a reduced test case?
Six months pass while the reduced test case is declassified, which involves review that it does not leak anything about the Super Secret Program that it's based on.
The reduced test case does not trigger the bug. Apparently the original did, but en route to being declassified the parts that triggered the bug were removed.