MISRA-C:2004

MISRA Mission Statement: To provide assistance to the automotive industry in the application and creation within vehicle systems of safe and reliable software.

MISRA, The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association, is a collaboration between vehicle manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultancies which seeks to promote best practice in developing safety-related electronic systems in road vehicles and other embedded systems. To this end MISRA publishes documents that provide accessible information for engineers and management, and holds events to permit the exchange of experiences between practitioners.

The first edition of the MISRA C Standard was published in 1998, the second edition was released in 2004 with many substantial changes.