Re: DO-178

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:29:51AM -0400, Tom Freund wrote:
> DO-178 (http://www.do178site.com/) is a software safety standard required
> by major avionics certification authorities such as the FAA or EASA (
> http://www.easa.eu.int/).
> 
> Has anyone brought up or is thinking about certifying the Lua interpreter /
> compiler and/or eLua under DO 178 (at any level) ?
> 
> They require use of MISRA C (http://www.misra.org.uk/)

MISRA C, known to some as MISERABLE C, is a subset of C where all the
features that people who shouldn't be programming use incorrectly are
forbidden.

Moving Lua to it would be a drawn-out and deeply unpleasant exercise, I
suspect.

B.