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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help Me Please :)
Date: 2000/03/29
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> In that case it is way way off base. Any safety critical
> software is validated and verified at the object level. You
> never depend on the correctness of the compiler, or the
> correctness of understanding of the high level language
> semantics.

That may well be true of SIL4 software, but I believe not normally so
for SIL(n<4).  In any case it all depends on the safety case and the
independent safety authority ..