Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
by anderspitman on Saturday May 02, 2015 @03:41PM
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Not sure about all of Boeing. I worked for a subcontractor who got a small piece of the project from Honeywell who contracted with Boeing. But we worked on aircraft from Boeing, Gulfstream, Airbus, etc and other than the 787 Ada stuff (which we ported to C), I don't recall seeing anything that wasn't written in C, C w/ classes (heavily stripped C++), or Javascript. Of course it's possible that my boss just asked for those types of projects since we had the most expertise there.
Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
by _jwilde on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:01PM
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Curious: what was Javascript used for? (In terms of general usage contexts.)
Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
by anderspitman on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:39PM
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That was a joke ;)
Is that true for all of Boeing? I recall reading about the Lustre synchronous dataflow language being used by Airbus. It apparently allows all sorts of interesting safety guarantees.