Re: DO-178

[Hisham <h@...>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:39:33PM -0400, Tom Freund wrote:
>> Rob,
>>
>> Thanks for your "incites" on MISRA C. :-)
>>
>> However, the goal here is to see if the Lua interpreter / compiler can be
>> DO-178 certified.
>>
>> Use of MISAR C is "suggested", not mandatory.
>
> Then perhaps.  What does DO-178 require if MISRA C is only a suggestion?
>
> Also, do you really want to use a garbage collected language to control
> a 800mph potential fireball of death?

And even if the code of the Lua interpreter were certified, that
doesn't mean that the Lua source code running on it would be. In fact,
given the kind of safety restrictions that such standards impose on
the use of C, it sounds unlikely that they'd let a dynamically typed
language run in those environments.

-- Hisham