Re: [boost] Use of boost in safety critical work

On 9 December 2014 at 11:57, dgutson . wrote:

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Marlow wrote:

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Hello fellow boosters,

I am currently considering a job which involves embedded safety critical. It is for a neonatal ventilator so the safety critical aspect really is critical rather than just 'jolly important'. The company says the development will be in C++ but they have not even heard of boost, let alone use it. They introduced me to a new acronym, well new to me anyway: SOUP. It stands for Software of Unknown Pedigree. They classify boost as SOUP.

Hi Andrew, and everybody. This is a so fruitful thread, full of information.

Indeed. Many thanks to all those who have contributed so far.

Question to Andrew: what about the STL then, do they classify as SOUP too? Or they have a verified implementation?

The STL is suspect and they do classify it as SOUP. They do not have a verified implementation, they use the one that comes with Visual Studio 2008. Since it is viewed with suspicion only certain parts of it are used.

Regarding the others, sorry the spam, but I don't want to loose this opportunity: I'm pursuing the creation of a "C++ for embedded and real-time systems" Study Group within the Standard, so I'd like to invite interested people to join to the mailing list in order to participate in the discussions and in the proposals. For those interested, just email me privately.

Will do. Thanks for the heads up.

Maybe, we could broaden the group's scope to include safety critical systems too (just thinking).

Daniel.

-- Regards, Andrew Marlow http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk