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In
computer programming, a precondition is a condition or
predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of
code or before an operation in a
formal specification.
If a precondition is violated, the effect of the section of
code becomes undefined and thus may or may not carry out its intended work.
Security problems can arise due to incorrect preconditions.
Often, preconditions are simply included in the documentation of the affected section of code. Preconditions are sometimes tested using
assertions within the code itself, and some languages have specific syntactic constructions for doing so.
For example: the
factorial is only defined for integers greater than or equal to zero. So a program that calculates the factorial of an input number would have preconditions that the number be an integer and that it be greater than or equal to zero.
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