E. Terms, Definitions, and Abbreviations¶

For the purpose of this qualification, the terms, definitions and abbreviated terms from the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards apply. Additional terms specific to the current qualification are listed below.

E.1. Definition of Terms¶

Child module¶: A module declared in another module. An example declaration is mod child_module;, which would be in a parent module. Examples of parent modules are files named main.rs, lib.rs, and mod.rs.
Known Problem¶
KP¶: Ferrocene Known Problems contain the description and scope of the unwanted behavior, suggest workarounds, detection and mitigation strategies, and list the affected releases.
Lexer¶: A stream of characters that represent the text of a Rust program in order to produce lexical elements.
Linker driver¶: An external linker or system C compiler used to locate system-specific C libraries needed to link executables and shared libraries, before deferring control to the actual linker.
Parser¶: Uses the lexical elements produced by the Lexer to construct the AST.

E.2. Abbreviated Terms¶

AST¶: Abstract Syntax Tree
CI¶: Continuous Integraiton
HIR¶: High-Level Intermediate Representation
IEC¶: International Electrotechnical Commission
ISO¶: International Organization for Standardization