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Automated Detection
Coverity Prevent
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. The Coverity Prevent NEGATIVE_RETURNS and REVERSE_NEGATIVE checkers both can both find violations of this rule. The NEGATIVE_RETURNS checker can find array accesses, loop bounds, and other expressions that may contain dangerous implied integer conversions that would result in unexpected behavior. The REVERSE_NEGATIVE checker can find instances where a negativity check occurs after the negative value has been used for something else. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary.
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