In a recent article in Vision Systems Design, March 2005, there is an
description of NASA's Shuttle heat-shield tiles measurement system,
consisting of - among others - an imaging computer HP xw6000 and a
National Instruments PCI-1424 frame grabber. It's said in the article
that "the software was written in ANCI C for portability". Is that a
typo, or does there exist such a beast, compromising the C standard
somehow? (This was the only occurrence of where the acronym ANCI was
mentioned in the article, there is no mention of ANSI.) The system is
basically a DSL 3-D imaging system, but I cannot see how it would have
been possible to create such a program in ANSI C, either.
Maybe Mr. Kirby could elaborate on that?
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Ari Lukumies wrote: In a recent article in Vision Systems Design, March 2005, there is an description of NASA's Shuttle heat-shield tiles measurement system, consisting of - among others - an imaging computer HP xw6000 and a National Instruments PCI-1424 frame grabber. It's said in the article that "the software was written in ANCI C for portability". Is that a typo, or does there exist such a beast, compromising the C standard somehow? (This was the only occurrence of where the acronym ANCI was mentioned in the article, there is no mention of ANSI.)
This is a typo obviously.
The system is basically a DSL 3-D imaging system, but I cannot see how it would have been possible to create such a program in ANSI C, either.
Why not?
I do not see any problems
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:33:16 +0300, Ari Lukumies wrote: In a recent article in Vision Systems Design, March 2005, there is an description of NASA's Shuttle heat-shield tiles measurement system, consisting of - among others - an imaging computer HP xw6000 and a National Instruments PCI-1424 frame grabber. It's said in the article that "the software was written in ANCI C for portability". Is that a typo, or does there exist such a beast, compromising the C standard somehow?
It looks like a typo to me. It even sounds like ANSI.
(This was the only occurrence of where the acronym ANCI was mentioned in the article, there is no mention of ANSI.) The system is basically a DSL 3-D imaging system, but I cannot see how it would have been possible to create such a program in ANSI C, either.
Maybe Mr. Kirby could elaborate on that?
I'm no expert on imaging systems, but it is perfectly possible to write
graphical data manipulation and storage code in standard C, but not the
input and output/display code for anything other than a very simplistic
I/O model.
Lawrence
Looks like a typo. I do recall a system called ANCI that supports C for
a military instruction set standard, but if it's written "for
portability", I would wager that they meant ANSI.
In article <xz*****************@reader1.news.jippii.net>,
Ari Lukumies <ar**********@gmail.com> wrote: In a recent article in Vision Systems Design, March 2005, there is an description of NASA's Shuttle heat-shield tiles measurement system, consisting of - among others - an imaging computer HP xw6000 and a National Instruments PCI-1424 frame grabber. It's said in the article that "the software was written in ANCI C for portability".
"Portability" in this context means ability to travel in orbit
at high rates of speed. Use ANCI C^2 if traveling near the
speed of light.
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