SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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Tool

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Checker

Description

Compass/ROSE

 

 

Can detect violations of this recommendation. Specifically, it reports violations if

    • a pointer to one object is type cast to the pointer of a different object.
    • the pointed-to object of the (type cast) pointer is then modified arithmetically.

LDRA tool suite

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LDRA_V
LDRA_V

94 S
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Fully implemented.

PRQA QA-C
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PRQA_V
PRQA_V
0310Partially implemented.

Related Vulnerabilities

Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this recommendation on the CERT website.

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CERT C++ Secure Coding StandardEXP11-CPP. Do not apply operators expecting one type to data of an incompatible type
ISO/IEC TR 24772Bit representations [STR]
MISRA-CRule 3.5

Bibliography

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(required): If it is being relied upon, the implementation-defined behaviour and packing of bitfields shall be documented

Bibliography

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[Plum 1985]Rule 6-5: In portable code, do not depend upon the allocation order of bit-fields within a word

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