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A comment on The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code. Parent comment
This is the reason why you see power of two limits in safety critical software. For example "radar is able to track up to 256 simultaneous objects".
for (i = 0; i < 256: i++) { if (NULL != object[i]) { // do stuff } }
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This is the reason why you see power of two limits in safety critical software. For example "radar is able to track up to 256 simultaneous objects".