golly-test Mailing List for Golly

As soon as the current release has been out for a month or two I'd like to
go in and do some general cleanup of Golly.

Google and the LLVM team have released some very nice sanitizers that
can be used to find subtle bugs.  I am a little nervous that we may find
many issues in the Wx toolkit, but I'm also quite certain we'll find some
issues in the large amount of code that is currently Golly.

I'm thinking of just using the undefined behavior and address
sanitizers to start with.

Of course Golly has so many features now that actually testing any
reasonable fraction of it is difficult.  Luckily we do have Lua scripting
that can do quite a bit automatically and reproducibly.  So I may start
putting together some scripts that just do random things, probably
starting with the one that steps through the Patterns displaying them
all.

I probably won't get to this until mid December, but thoughts on how to
approach this would be helpful.

-tom

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Golly 3.3 is now available from Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-3.3/

Andrew