It’s the end of another decade. One that saw supercomputer performance grow by a factor of 100, so Moore’s law is still going strong. Almost as old as Moore’s law, the C language and SuperTest are also alive and kicking. With the recent C18 and SuperTest Vermeer...
Open-source software is everywhere – in the global IT infrastructure, in our PCs and in our cars. On the other hand, open-source hardware is far less visible. With the emergence of RISC-V that may be about to change. While we see great potential for open-source...
The realisation that qualified compilers are a necessity in the development of safety-critical applications is finally hitting home in the automotive industry. Yet not every company has the capacity to qualify a compiler themselves for their specific configuration and...
As programmers, we all make mistakes. Writing first-time-right C or C++ code is very unusual. One important function of a compiler is to spot these errors, issue diagnostics and prevent object code generation. If a compiler fails to detect source code errors they will...
It may sound as too obvious, but there is a big difference between the source code and the compiler generated code for an application. For one, compiler generated code is more complicated, because it often includes duplicated, and specialized, source code. So, why is...
Today’s worries about car safety have shifted from traditional crash-test performance to the software systems that control many of the safety-critical components in the car. Compiler qualification with SuperTest plays an important role in keeping software safe. The...
