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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:49:53 -0500
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"Chris Hills" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
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> I doubt it. At least not in large enough numbers to justify it
> especially as 61508 permits C  (subset, with coding standard and static
> checking) to SIL-4
>
> In effect a SPARK-C

When you says static checking, do you include static checkers that can prove
that assertions are never volilated (within a set of assumptions)?  If so
then your C subset with static checking might be in effect a SPARK-C.  SPARK
supports some very nice formal verification techniques which you might be
overlooking.

-CRM