Re: Safe ANSI C Subset

Roger Barnett <Roger@natron.demon.co.uk>
15 Dec 1996 16:12:48 -0500

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From: Roger Barnett <Roger@natron.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Dec 1996 16:12:48 -0500
Organization: Natron Software Maintenance Ltd
References: 96-12-030 96-12-046
Keywords: C, realtime

Jan Soderberg (Jan.Soderberg@mecel.se) wrote:
> Does anyone know of any ANSI C subsets defined for safety critical
> real-time applications?


flux@stack.nl (Mark van der Aalst) writes:
> I am not aware of any subsets of 'C' wich handle this sort of thing, I
> do know that most military applications (at least in this country) are
> written in plain 'C' ...


Is this because they decided that C was safer than the RTL/2
language which was quite widespread over there ten years ago ?


[ I ask this because we used to be told that Ada was replacing
    all of the RTL/2 because of its superior safety features - to
    hear that in fact all this stuff is now written in C is a little ironic
    but totally unsurprising. ]


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Roger Barnett
Natron Software Ltd, York, England
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