From: Rakesh Malhotra <rakesh.malhotra@pop.safetran.com>
Subject: An interesting source of coding error
Date: 1999/02/01
Date: 1999-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <795104$spj$1@news-1.news.gte.net> (raw)
I often read a newsgroup called comp.risks (very interesting info) and
found the following text in the most recent posting of the risks
digest. Thought some of you may find it interesting.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:35:19 -0800
From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
Subject: Programming errors
I am reminded again of how shaky the software world is.
Someone has been making a major effort to clean up the code in the
FreeBSD tree. In two days he has reported three instances of the
following common C error:
if (x = y)
instead of
if (x == y)
This is in running code, in an OS whose developers consider stability
to be one of its major advantages over other offerings.
He also reported some missing breaks in a switch statement---many of
us remember what THAT error did not too long ago. [RISKS-9.61 to 71.
Trojan horse switches in midstream? PGN]
-Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com
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