From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: Tests in a software release
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2017-10-26T17:30:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ost62r$cn0$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: osqoph$1ves$1@gioia.aioe.org
On 2017-10-25, Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> wrote:
> Do you agree that a release (that is software for which debugging was
> finished) should have integer overflow tests but not array out of bounds
> tests (because array out of bounds is always a programming error, but
> integer overflow may happen in an innocent program)?
>
No way should they ever be disabled. You only _think_ that debugging
is finished. :-)
Leave them enabled and have a failsafe handler do whatever is needed
either to shut things down or to recover in a controlled manner.
Simon.
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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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2017-10-25 19:30 Tests in a software release Victor Porton
2017-10-26 7:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-27 18:06 ` G. B.
2017-10-27 18:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-28 6:53 ` G.B.
2017-10-28 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-30 20:44 ` G. B.
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-31 7:17 ` G.B.
2017-10-31 8:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-03 7:24 ` G.B.
2017-11-03 8:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-03 12:49 ` Shark8
2017-11-04 10:15 ` G.B.
2017-11-15 0:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 17:57 ` G. B.
2017-11-15 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-17 15:36 ` Shark8
2017-11-15 22:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 21:44 ` G.B.
2017-11-17 0:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17 15:45 ` Shark8
2017-11-18 1:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-15 21:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 16:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-15 16:59 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-15 20:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-15 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 5:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-16 23:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-15 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-16 17:02 ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-17 0:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-22 20:40 ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-14 23:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-26 8:09 ` Stefan.Lucks
2017-10-26 17:30 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
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