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When discussing best or safest C programming practices with various C gurus on the Internet, the "MISRA-C guidelines for the use of C language in critical systems" often pops up as a source. This ...
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Lundin
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2020-11-12T09:59:43Z (almost 4 years ago)
Is MISRA-C useful outside safety-critical and embedded programming?
When discussing best or safest C programming practices with various C gurus on the Internet, the _"[MISRA-C](https://www.misra.org.uk/Activities/MISRAC/tabid/160/Default.aspx) guidelines for the use of C language in critical systems"_ often pops up as a source. This standard was invented by the automotive industry and is pretty much mandatory in all automotive firmware nowadays. It has also become a widely-recognized de facto standard for embedded systems in general. The argument for using it seems to be that the standard is mainly focusing on removing bugs, hazards and poorly-defined behavior and nobody likes bugs in their application, mission-critical or not. Does it make sense to use MISRA-C outside embedded systems? For example when doing system or application C programming in Windows/Linux/Android etc.