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Re: SV: Re: MISRA C support for GCC?

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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