When your code absolutely, always, *has* to work :-).

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 10:29:24AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > I found this really interesting:
> > > 
> > > http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in/159638#159638
> > > 
> > > http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
> > > 
> > > Makes Samba seem a bit less reliable somehow :-).
> > 
> > One problem here is that to me it seems those MISRA docs and
> > tools are not available for free. I have looked at one
> > point, but I could not find anything easily accessible. And,
> > no malloc() is difficult for Samba I guess. We don't want a
> > pre-allocated array of fsp's I think :-)
> 
> No, I wasn't seriously suggesting no malloc, after all we're
> not running on a spaceship :-).

Uh, excuse me, Mr. Allison, that's not entirely accurate....
(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Independence_Day)

Seriously, I had a support call from somebody running a
medical monitoring instrument on the ISS. Data was exported
using Samba 2.2.something. No joke.

Volker

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