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There are four types of errors: - Unknown seed, - CRC mismatch, - Invalid types, - Execution time < 10s. All of these errors are handled by the 'total_errors' variable. However, handling of the 'unknown seed' error differs from other types: it sets 'total_errors' to -1, while other types of errors increment this variable. This behavior leads to situations where one error overrides another. For example, if you compile the program incorrectly and get an unknown seed, and then run the program for less than 10 seconds, you will get total_errors = 0 (because one error sets it to -1, while another increments it to 0). See eembc#4. As a result, you'll receive "Correct operation validated" when you shouldn't.
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Feb 11, 2026
| if (total_errors > 0) | ||
| ee_printf("Errors detected\n"); | ||
| if (total_errors < 0) | ||
| if (known_id < 0) |
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The known_id variable is initialized by -1 and then it reassigned to positive value in switch(seedcrc) block of code. Thus, known_id < 0 is basically the same indicator as current check total_errors < 0, but without error type collision in total_errors variable.
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Thanks for the details. I will look into this in a couple of weeks time.
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There are four types of errors:
All of these errors are handled by the 'total_errors' variable. However, handling of the 'unknown seed' error differs from other types: it sets 'total_errors' to -1, while other types of errors increment this variable.
This behavior leads to situations where one error overrides another. For example, if you compile the program incorrectly and get an unknown seed, and then run the program for less than 10 seconds, you will get total_errors = 0 (because one error sets it to -1, while another increments it to 0). See #4.
As a result, you'll receive "Correct operation validated" when you shouldn't.