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Note that it is a common mistake to choose a reserved name for the name of the macro used in the inclusion guard. See guideline DCL37-C. Do not use identifiers that are reserved for the implementation.
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PRE06-C | low | unlikely | low | P3 | L3 |
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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as : PRE06-CPP. Enclose header files in an inclusion guard.
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 6.10, "Preprocessing directives," Section 5.1.1, "Translation environment," and Section 7.1.2, "Standard headers" \[[MISRA 042004|AA. Bibliography#MISRA 04]\] Rule 19.5 \[[Plum 851985|AA. Bibliography#Plum 85]\] Rule 1-14 |
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