From: Britt Snodgrass <britt@adapower.net>
Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:24:31 -0600
Date: 2001-01-18T13:24:31-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6742EF.D9136D3@adapower.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 947ddu$jpd$1@nnrp1.deja.com
k_e_n_s_a_i@my-deja.com wrote:
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> Still, I would think it unlikely that military systems or other
> critical applications would be programmed in C/C++, even if some
I know of several safety critical systems programmed in C (not C++)
where the software has been developed and verified in accordance with
RTCA DO-178B Level A (most stringent) standards. These include
instrument landing system (ILS) units used to help land large commercial
aircraft. Safe software can be written in C; it just takes more time
and money than doing it in Ada.
One technical reason for using C is that the ILS units use unique
processors such as 16-bit fixed-point DSP CPUs for which there is no Ada
compiler available.
Britt Snodgrass
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-18 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-17 3:53 Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++ Ken Garlington
2001-01-17 5:20 ` Richard Andrews
2001-01-17 17:02 ` Wes Groleau
2001-01-17 15:22 ` Mario Grgic
2001-01-17 16:20 ` Ian Wild
2001-01-17 16:44 ` Steve Nester
2001-01-17 17:04 ` Greg Comeau
2001-01-17 17:28 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-17 23:58 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-19 4:00 ` Flavius Vespasian
2001-01-19 7:33 ` Gerhard Häring
2001-01-19 15:28 ` Philip Anderson
2001-01-18 0:47 ` k_e_n_s_a_i
2001-01-18 2:02 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-17 18:57 ` John Luebs
2001-01-18 8:42 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-01-18 13:49 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-18 14:40 ` Peter Amey
2001-01-18 17:30 ` r_c_chapman
2001-01-18 20:45 ` Phil Staite
2001-01-19 10:40 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-01-19 16:05 ` Phil Staite
2001-01-18 15:03 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-18 14:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-18 21:47 ` Mike Silva
2001-01-18 15:24 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-18 16:05 ` Sahan Amarasekera
2001-01-18 19:12 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-18 22:40 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-19 11:27 ` Dewi Daniels
2001-01-20 0:46 ` ian.kerr2
2001-01-20 3:54 ` tmoran
2001-01-20 19:22 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-18 18:42 ` k_e_n_s_a_i
2001-01-18 19:24 ` Britt Snodgrass [this message]
2001-01-18 22:57 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-18 23:10 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-01-19 22:22 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-20 4:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-22 15:20 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-22 16:46 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-18 22:52 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-19 12:10 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-21 23:17 ` dvdeug
2001-01-19 8:22 ` Daryle Walker
2001-01-19 9:19 ` Ian Wild
2001-01-19 12:13 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-19 12:14 ` David Kristola
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