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out-of-bounds

out-of-bounds

7.8
A program tries to read or write outside the allowed part of memory
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : fuera de rango
  • But now that we have all this extra address space here, we can actually put the out of bounds offset directly in this pointer.

And here the nice thing is we may we may need a proof that that that the index will never be out of bound.

Examples

  • Steps out of bounds to stop the clock.

    The Longest Yard (1974)

  • You usually want to divide by two to prevent the signal from going "out of bounds."

    Blog text (27)

  • So in this case, we're going to test the access to an out of bounds value.

  • Caught the index out of bounds condition that others seemed to miss.

    Blog text (20)

  • Data races have undefined behavior; they are errors in the same sense as an out-of-bounds array access.

    Academic text (2012)

  • So we can't just, you know, signal an error if we see the arithmetic going out of bounds because in C that may or may not be an error, right?

  • When an attempt is made to access an element that is outside of the valid range, it triggers an out-of-bounds error.

  • The program crashed because it tried to read an out-of-bounds memory address, resulting in data corruption.

  • Developers must ensure their code does not reference out-of-bounds indices to avoid unexpected behavior.

Synonyms

out of bounds
vsout-of-bounds
21 3.7

Not allowed because it is outside the allowed area or against the rules

refers to a programming access outside numeric limits that may cause errors

Antonyms

valid
348 3.1

Accepted by law, by an official, or for good reason

How Severe

out-of-bounds
  • Specialized
7.8
overreading
  • Specialized
9.6
to overread
  • Specialized
8.9

Surface Forms

out-of-bounds positive

Morphology

out-of-bounds = bounds (transparent) = out + of + bounds

The computing sense extends the literal idea of being outside limits to numeric or memory limits, which is a clear metaphorical extension. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Out-of-bounds in computing uses the same idea: out ('outside') and bounds ('limits'). It describes when a program goes beyond the allowed part of a list or memory, which can cause errors.