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Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
Cc: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at alice-dsl dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:52:12 -0700
Subject: Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
References: <1180126202.4655.4.camel@meiner.onlinehome.de> <84fc9c000705251354w73485239g27224dfa84f19fab@mail.gmail.com> <46574F50.1070503@avtrex.com>

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:04:16PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> >On 5/25/07, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >>What about a keyword for bugs that
> >>
> >>- generate wrong code
> >>- affect a standard-conforming program
> >>- are silent (no error message)
> >>
> >>?
> >>
> >>IMHO, these bugs are especially nasty and should get high visibility
> >>(and maybe even special privileges for fixing on a release branch).
> >
> >It's called 'wrong-code'?  Maybe I'm missing something though.
> 
> Perhaps that doesn't connote enough gravitas.

Set the keyword to wrong-code and the priority to P1.

References:
- special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
  - From: Thomas Koenig
- Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
  - From: David Daney

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