SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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int *p1, *p2;
p1 = foo();
p2 = bar();

if(baz())
   return p1;
else
    p2 = p1;
return p2;

Note this example assumes that the results of foo() and bar() are valid DCL30-C.

Compliant Solution

This example can be corrected many different ways depending on the intent of the programmer. In this compliant solution, p2 is initialized to NULL rather than the result of bar().

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