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Conformance to the CERT C Coding Standard requires that the code not contain any violations of the rules specified in this standard. If an exceptional condition is claimed, the exception must correspond to a predefined exceptional condition, and the application of this exception must be documented in the source code. Conformance with the recommendations on the wiki is not necessary to claim conformance with the CERT C++ Coding Standard. Conformance However, conformance to the recommendations will, in many cases, make it easier to conform to the rules, eliminating many potential sources of defects.
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