Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++

["Phil Staite" <pstaite@home.net>]

"Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote in message
news:awC96.8457$J%.852855@news.flash.net...

> Which brings me back to the original question: Does anyone know of a
> specific safety-critical application (military or non-military) that was
> implemented in C++ and subsequently put into operational use?

I've worked on some DoD projects where support gear for specific weapons
systems was coded in C++.  If the support gear doesn't work right, then it
could certify a system as available when it wasn't, with obviously bad
consequences.  Of course, when the systems work right, they generally have
bad consequences for someone else...

I'm also working on a real-time medical system (EKG/heart monitoring) that
is 100% C++ based.  Can't go into any details due to NDA.

Finally, any system running on an IBM AS/400 since the early 90s is running
on an OS where the low-level code is C++.  I imagine there are a fair number
of hospitals using AS/400s.  Also, I believe a number of places use AS/400s
to control telephone switching gear. (I know of one entire country that uses
them)  Lots of life or death information passes over phones.