On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Adam Richardson <simpleshot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Larry Martell > <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> >> The source is my own personal experience working for an avionics >> company and working with the FAA to get our code certified under the >> DO-178B standard. I never saw anything that said 'no GOTOs' but that's >> what I was told. I was also told no C++ was allowed nor was any >> recursion. This was important to me, as we had purchased some code >> that was all that (C++, with recursion and GOTOs) and I was given the >> task of rewriting it in C and removing the gotos and the recursion. >> > > Now that was probably a lot of work! Interesting that C++ was not allowed. > > Thanks for the background information, I was a lot of work, but I was a contractor getting paid by the hour ;-); I just pulled out my notes from that job - it took me 59 hours to do the conversion and remove the gotos and recursion, and another 67 hours for testing, verification, integration, documentation, and certification. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
