special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Fri May 25 20:54:00 GMT 2007


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



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