The risk of destructive run-time errors

  • Authors:
  • Piergiorgio Delrio;Franco Mazzanti

  • Affiliations:
  • Intecs Sistemi S.p.A. , Pisa - Italy;Istituto di Elaborazione dell 'Informazione, Pisa - Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

We introduce the class of destructive run-time errors as those errors after which the execution status of the program can be so damaged that it is usually impossible to perform any kind of program-driven recovery. Programming errors causing this destructive events are analysed, with particular attention to those cases not related to the use of explicitly "dangerous" low level constructs. It is shown how the risk of these errors can be easily underestimated.