The deadline command
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The deadline command is a simple, yet highly flexible language primitive for real time programming. Formally, it has a straightforward definition as a constraint on the current time. In practice, it acts as a compiler directive, which can be checked statically, to ensure that the program will always meet its timing requirements. As a concrete example, a way of adding the deadline command to the safety critical SPARK programming language is described. A detailed comparison is made with other proposed real time language constructs
Published in:
Software, IEE Proceedings -
(Volume:146
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Issue:
2
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Date of Publication: Apr 1999