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Don't they use super statically verifiable code for these kinds of applications? Like, Ada?
Sort of. We used C, but no dynamic memory allocation.
Oh that's neat. That makes me feel a lot better. I mean I get that the systems were probably embedded and that everything was defined, but it's relieving to hear that a segmentation fault or dangling pointer would generally be avoided.