opImplicitCast/opImplicitCastFrom

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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