I imagine in that line of work, SW must consist of like 99% safeguards and checks of various kinds. Like rather double-check the thing the compiler already proved at runtime than discovering a rare compiler bug in 10 years during a complex oribital descent maneuver…
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Use u64 and it’ll be like 585 billion years, think of the uptime!
Time to call a doctor 😳
Have to reboot every 136 years, literally unusable.
Gosh, if I ever get into the business of writing software for spacecraft with long duration missions, I have to test for such cases.
I imagine in that line of work, SW must consist of like 99% safeguards and checks of various kinds. Like rather double-check the thing the compiler already proved at runtime than discovering a rare compiler bug in 10 years during a complex oribital descent maneuver…
There is a great video about NASAs space-proof code style guide for c++
Literally 1984
um ACKSHULLY the year would be 1884 136 years ago from now