From: devel@... <devel@...> On Behalf Of Brink, Peter via lists.elisa.tech
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 7:30 PM
To: Elana Copperman <Elana.Copperman@...>; devel@...
Subject: Re: [ELISA Technical Community] Limitations of code quality to ensure safety of modern software

 

Hi Elana,

 

Not sure why you directed this to me.  I have always advocated for product and process quality, of which code quality is just one aspect.  The safety of a product, as you say at the end might be compromised by the design, which is why I have been advocating for the quality and safety aspects mentioned above.

 

Pete

 

 

Hi Pete,

See  http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_2.html

I don't know if this contest is still being supported.  But as you can see, it highlights the limitations of C as a programming language.

So that ensuring "quality" of any C-based safety critical system is not easy, even before we get to the limitations of Linux and open source.

Unfortunately throughout my career I have seen plenty of code examples which, although not malicious in the sense of this contest, comply with accepted development/coding/test processes – but are inherently unsafe, sometimes by design.

Regards

Elana

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