Re: Using template in safety-critical system (flight critical system)
On 2008-01-24 10:31, HongWoo wrote:
Do you have experience developing hard real-time, safety-critical
system with c++ template ?
I'm worrying about testing of code using template and stl.
There is nothing different about testing template code from normal code
(as long as you instantiate the templates with the same types that will
be used in the real code). One nice thing about templates is that they
do not instantiate stuff that you do not need. That means that you will
have no dead code, so you can actually get smaller code than what you
would get without using templates. To demonstrate this consider the
following (bad) code:
template<class T>
class Test
{
public:
T& foo(T i)
{
return i;
}
T& bar(T i)
{
return i;
}
};
int main()
{
Test<int> t;
t.foo(1);
}
If you compile this with a good compiler you should get a warning about
returning a reference to a local variable, but only in function foo()
and not bar() since that is not used and thus not compiled. If you add a
call to bar() too you should a warning for bar() too.
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