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Rule | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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DCL30-C | 3 ( high ) | 2 ( probable ) | 1 ( high ) | P6 | L2 |
Automated Detection
The LDRA tool suite V 7.6.0 is able to detect violations of this rule.
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The tool Compass Rose automatically detects returning pointers to local variables. Detecting more general cases, such as examples where static pointers are set to local variables which then go out of ocope woul dbe scope would be difficult.
The Coverity Prevent RETURN_LOCAL checker finds many instances where a function will return a pointer to a local stack variable. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary.
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