special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs

Richard Guenther richard.guenther@gmail.com
Fri May 25 21:03:00 GMT 2007


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.

Richard.



More information about the Gcc mailing list