MISRA has now set a release date for MISRA C++.

For those who don't know about MISRA, it is an organization created by the automotive industry in the UK. Any serious C programmer working with systems that safety-critical and/or have real-time performance, or anyone who simply want to enforce that the code written by their company is somewhat sane, bug free and portable has been using the industry standard MISRA C for over ten years now. It was created for the automotive industry for safety-critical applications, but the rules it contains is applicable to any C program. And now there will also be a MISRA standard supporting C++.

If you work as a professional programmer who knows the standards well, and want to enforce stricter programming rules for your company, MISRA C and MISRA C++ are definitely worth checking out. One can buy the MISRA C pdf from their site for around $20, so I assume the C++ one will end up in the same price range.

Hmm, I'm thinking of if there is some kind of Open Source alternative
programming standard.

And then I must ask what does such a standard include?

Would something like the BSD coding style (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9) suffice?
Or does the standard include more specific things like how a project
should advance and how much time you should spend on testing etc...

: Hmm, I'm thinking of if there is some kind of Open Source alternative
: programming standard.
:
: And then I must ask what does such a standard include?
:
: Would something like the BSD coding style
: (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9) suffice?
: Or does the standard include more specific things like how a project
: should advance and how much time you should spend on testing etc...


MISRA is not a style guide, it is rules for coding. It requires that you have a style guide however, but doesn't mention how it should be formatted.

A free alternative to MISRA is CERT, for both C and C++, but it is much vauger and less strict than MISRA and doesn't have a wide acceptance, nor was it made for safety-critical applications.

http://www.cert.org/secure-coding/

Anyway, £12 for MISRA is quite cheap.

Ah, ok now I get it.

Thank you.