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by rexignis 4032 days ago
Additional reading material: some of NASA's own rules for safe code (with explanations of each! love the stack one, free memory management :P).

http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf

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JPL also published a C coding standard, which details language constructs that one should and shouldn't use in a mission critical embedded system. Some of the rules make a reappearance there (the "Power of Ten" article is mentioned in the introduction).

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf