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Title:	DCL06-C. Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values
Author:	-	Apr 26, 2007
Last Changed by:	Jill Britton	Apr 20, 2023
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: EXP07-C. Do not diminish the benefits of constants by assuming their values in expressions     Page: DCL00-C. Const-qualify immutable objects

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 02. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

• ldra
• compass/rose
• rose-na-macros
• hand-coded
• android-applicable
• exceptions
• recommendation
• dcl

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    cwe.mitre.org/
    www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/cplus/c++.rules/chap10.html
    c-faq.com/cpp/constvsdefine.html
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/547.html
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.dcl06…

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