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GCC Compiler can detect violation of this rule when the -Wstrict-prototypes flag is used. However, it cannot detect violations involving variadic functions, such as the open() example above.
Compass/ROSE could specifically can detect the violations in the open() example by ensuring some violations of this rule. In particular it ensures that all calls to open() supply a third argumentthree arguments.
Related Vulnerabilities
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