From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,59dddae4a1f01e1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: Need help with PowerPC/Ada and realtime tasking Date: 1996/06/03 Message-ID: <31B2BE86.4E7A@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158245419 references: <1026696wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk> <122916091wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk> <4och4o$jdc@hacgate2.hac.com> <1996May30.103842.17355@ocsystems.com> <152267236wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: JP Thornley wrote: > > This thread is about safety-critical software and "usable" has to be > seen in that context. > > In particular there are severe requirements on what is a suitably mature > compiler for us to start to look at it. I'm not sure about the length of your development cycle, but certainly it is possible to _start_ with a compiler that is not fully mature, so long as there is a adequate probability that the compiler will be fully mature prior to the start of qualification testing. Doing this, of course, adds some level of risk to a project from a management standpoint, but it isn't a safety issue per se IMHO. -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"