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Is it safe to use dynamic allocations in a mission-critical / life-critical system, or should it be avoided?
Started by Lior Kogan on
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For example life critical system like car and air plane do not use dynamic very heavily, and they are mission critical ....
critical software normally there has to be hardware responsible to restarting the software your system crash.
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Are these actually three different concepts or am I getting jumbled? (I've been reading articles about threading and garbage collection together and have confused myself.)
"Critical section" - I think this may just be the term for sections of code that...
Started by J M on
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According to Concurrent Programming on Windows by Joe Duffy the definitions for critical section/region are as follows:
Critical section : In Win32 critical section is a simple data structure ( CRITICAL_SECTION ) used to build....
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How to differentiate critical windows updates among all updates in c++
Started by Shushanik on
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You can't, as how can you determine heuristically that one update is critical and the other is non-critical?...this is where a human steps in to check and determine from another source.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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Then watch as your machine bluescreens since you just terminated a critical process :) (btw want to do this? There's a reason they're called....
The best way is to shut.
It's critical for a reason so you probably shouldn't be killing it at all.
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Could someone please explain to me what we refer to as life critical information and to what we refer to as mission critical information. I was searching the internet for hours but I could not find an exact definition, or at least examples of what this...
Started by Kapila on
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Does that help?
By extension....
I've not heard the term "life critical" before, but mission critical information implies that requires a special code sequence to activate, the code would be critical to the mission of discharging the weapon.
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I was debugging a multi-threaded application and found the internal structure of CRITICAL_SECTION . I found data member LockSemaphore of CRITICAL_SECTION an interesting one.
It looks like LockSemaphore is an auto-reset event (not a semaphore as the name...
Started by aJ on
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The most important thing to....
For example, critical sections than the spin count time.
How OS objects perform is very dependent on the scenario .
Something yourself that is similar to an OS critical section using other primitives then odds.
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If you were going to write some safety-critical software, what language would you prefer and why?
Started by marcumka on
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I believe Ada is still in use in some government projects that are safety and/or mission critical critical, you will be unable to rely on third-party software which has not been extensively reviewed critical software, such as aircraft....
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So App Verifier is throwing this exception. From what I gather, the text of this message is a little misleading. The problem appears to be that the the critical section was created by a thread that is being destroyed before the critical section is destroyed...
Started by Karim on
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/2008/02/18/application-verifier-thread-cannot-own-a-critical-section/ I dug around for a bit and cannot find any specific reason why you cannot create and delete a critical section on different threads own a critical section so to....
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Exact Duplicate Initialize Critical Section only once for a process
I have a dll that creates a global critical section, initializes and use it.
Now a third party application is using / loading the dll more than once which leads to a heap corruption.
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Questions/724560/initialize-critical-section-only-once-for-a-process
Now a third party application is using / loading.
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What data does the Win32 CRITICAL_SECTION contain, and how big is it?
This is undocumented and presumably implementation specific, but I'm curious to know
Started by Daniel Fortunov on
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HANDLE OwningThread; HANDLE LockSemaphore; DWORD SpinCount;
Edit: a command like sizeof(CRITICAL struct _RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION { PRTL_CRITICAL_SECTION_DEBUG DebugInfo; // // The following three fields control entering and exiting....
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