special keyword for silent wrong-code bugs

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Fri May 25 21:08:00 GMT 2007


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.

David Daney



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