miscompile

Verb

miscompile (third-person singular simple present miscompiles, present participle miscompiling, simple past and past participle miscompiled)

1. To compile (put together) incorrectly.
   • 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.1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations For 1981...
   • We found that there were many complaints by the agents and the voters of miscompiled rolls.1994, Rāshṭriya Nirvācana Paryavekshaṇa Samiti, Nepāla, Nepal election observation report: mid-term polls, page 147
2. To compile (generate executable from source code) incorrectly.
   • The replacement code would miscompile the login command so that it would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password.1990, Lance J. Hoffman, Rogue programs: viruses, worms, and Trojan horses, page 125
   • 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".2001, Kevin Bowyer, Ethics and Computing: Living Responsibly in a Computerized World, page 101