[SystemSafety] New paper on MISRA C

[David Ward]

Derek

A further point of clarity here is that you are talking about MISRA C, which MISRA was not "paid" to develop. This has always been a voluntary effort.

It is arguable whether a grant-funded project (where industrial partners do not get full costs reimbursed) is being "paid" but I do not want to open a debate on that ...

David

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David,

> Once the grant-funded project was complete, some of the industrial partners elected to continue working together on a self-funded basis and one of the first outcomes of this was the publication of MISRA C.  This arose from two automotive companies acknowledging it was better to have a single industry approach to a C subset than company specific guidelines.

MISRA were paid to do some work, when it took off those involved were flexible enough to find a way for the 'project' to continue.

The success story of MISRA C is a result of the efforts of those inside and outside to keep working over many years, on what senior management probably regarded as an inefficient use of resources.


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