miscompile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To compile (put together) incorrectly.
verb
To compile (generate executable from source code) incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Sufficient data is turned into the Agency but as this data is reviewed and forwarded to area and Central information systems, it seems to get miscompiled through this bureaucratic process."
- "We found that there were many complaints by the agents and the voters of miscompiled rolls."
- "It knows how to falsify, to edit, and to miscompile statistics but shouldn't be able to raise living standards to the West's moving average, nor achieve social justice, empowerment, and freedom."
- "The replacement code would miscompile the login command so that it would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password."
- "Figure 3.2 shows a simple modification to the compiler that will deliberately miscompile source whenever a particular pattern is matched. If this were not deliberate, it would be called a compiler "bug." Since it is deliberate, it should be called a "Trojan horse"."
- "How often did the compiler crash, miscompile, or unexpectedly cost engineering time?"