spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (03/11/88)
I need to develop a body of references to published descriptions of
bugs resulting from changes in environment. That is, programs
which worked fine on one machine, but failed to work when ported
to another machine or had the current system upgraded, either due
to a change in data type precision, change in memory size, timing
differences, etc. Also appropriate are references to programs
that failed to work simply because the machine involved didn't
have the precision or range or memory that the programmer
assumed, even though the code itself was "correct."
I'm *not* interested in hearing anecdotal references; I want examples
(compilations would be best) that have appeared in the literature in
the past 10 years. Note that I'm not asking about portability
problems, per se, but about failures of the actual machine to
match the programmer's virtual machine.
Thanks in advance!
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Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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