[SystemSafety] New paper on MISRA C

Paul Sherwood paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk
Thu Sep 13 11:12:39 CEST 2018


On 2018-09-13 10:02, Andrew Banks wrote:
>> I don't think I've ever said I would like to scrap it. I'm mainly 
>> hoping
>> to see it become a public domain or CC document, so that it can be 
>> more
>> widely referenced, understood, critiqued, improved and used.

> Many people write C without ever reading the C standard...

Yup.

> Matters regarding the publication mechanism are above my pay-grade...
> although I'd have a problem with the idea of MISRA C becoming an ISO
> standard (with an extra zero or two added to the price)

Me too. Let's not get started on the standards Ponzi scheme here... the 
trustable-software list is a better place for ranting about that :-)

> However, should you, or anyone else for that matter, have any 
> suggestions
> for improving it, then you can either email them to me, post on the 
> MISRA
> Bulletin Board or via any other means.

Understood. I've given up on the bulletin board, but maybe the 
C-Safe-Secure-studygroup is helping in a small way?

br
Paul


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