Joe Buck - Re: SV: Re: MISRA C support for GCC? (original) (raw)

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• From: Joe Buck
• To: Robert Dewar
• Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis , David Daney , fredrik at hederstierna dot com, Daniel Jacobowitz , gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
• Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:49:21 -0800
• Subject: Re: SV: Re: MISRA C support for GCC?
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Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

We've gotten to deal with SC people and they do also believe it is a miserable subset of C.

Pun, hmm? (MISRAble).

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:26:58PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:

Well it is as far as I know, the only recognized subset of C for this purpose, and there are a number of standards that approve e.g. the use of Ada or MISRA C, but not any other flavor of C. It's certainly getting more attention in Europe, and more and more companies are adopting it.

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

I think that this discussion is premature; no one is proposing to contribute a patch or signing up to start working on one, right? Until then, arguing about the goodness of MISRA C isn't really relevant to GCC development.

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