opImplicitCast/opImplicitCastFrom

[Bruno Medeiros]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:21 AM, bearophile 
>>> <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>>>> This document from experience says that integral overflow bugs are a 
>>>> significant percentage of the total:
>>>> http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf 
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, it says array-out-of-bounds errors, dereferencing null pointers,
>>> accessing uninitialized variables _and_ integer overflows together
>>> represent 50% of the bugs.  I don't know about you but I run into
>>> those first three cases (well.. two, since there aren't uninitialized
>>> variables in D) waaaaay more than I do integer overflows.
>>
>> I think the frequency of a bug should be multiplied with the trouble 
>> it takes to fix it. Frequency alone isn't terribly relevant.
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> And the time it takes to find the source of the bug. It doesn't matter 
> if it's a one-character fix if you have to go through 10 KLOC to find 
> where the problem is.
> 
> For dereferencing null, you can look at the call stack and add contracts 
> to find where null's being passed in. For integer overflows, it's a bit 
> more difficult.

Finding the source of the bug is part of the "trouble it takes to fix it".

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