Errors in C, C++, and other programming languages often Software vulnerabilities can result when a programmer fails to consider all possible data states.
Non-Compliant Code Example
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This non-compliant code example fails to consider all possible cases. This may be the correct behavior in this case, but failure to account for all the values of widget_type may result in logic errors if widget_type unexpectedly assumes a different value. This is particularly problematic in C, because an identifier declared as an enumeration constant has type int. Therefore, a programmer can accidently accidentally assign an arbitrary integer value to an enum type as shown in this example.
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