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Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at alice-dsl dot net>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:51:57 -0400
Subject: Re: special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
References: <1180126202.4655.4.camel@meiner.onlinehome.de>

Thomas Koenig 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).


Well I would not *necessarily* give these unconditionally higher
priority, since the fourth criterion "- are likely to occur in practice"
is an important additional one!

Thomas

References:
- special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs
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