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by philwise 1722 days ago
Are there vendors who provide support for tool qualification for frama-c? By that I mean documentation support that can be provided as part of the certification process, so when you say "Frama-c verified this code does not contain any arithmetic overflow", it is possible to back that up with "And Frama-c version x.y.z has sound analysis, evidenced by ...."
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Great question. C/C++ is definitely trending upward in 'safe software' systems even though it isn't ready and industry as a whole isn't (as far as I know) using Frama-C. Are Tesla/Google/Apple hiring Ada engineers to build the car autopilots that control whether we live or die? Nope, seems to all be C++, God help us all.