SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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Title: Coverity_V  
Author: Robert Seacord (Manager) Jun 24, 2010
Last Changed by: Nelson Tam Aug 03, 2017
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (77)
    Page: CON35-C. Avoid deadlock by locking in a predefined order
    Page: MEM35-C. Allocate sufficient memory for an object
    Page: POS49-C. When data must be accessed by multiple threads, provide a mutex and guarantee no adjacent data is also accessed
    Page: EXP30-C. Do not depend on the order of evaluation for side effects
    Page: MSC12-C. Detect and remove code that has no effect or is never executed
    Page: EXP40-C. Do not modify constant objects
    Page: FLP30-C. Do not use floating-point variables as loop counters
    Page: CON41-C. Wrap functions that can fail spuriously in a loop
    Page: DCL31-C. Declare identifiers before using them
    Page: STR32-C. Do not pass a non-null-terminated character sequence to a library function that expects a string
    Page: INT31-C. Ensure that integer conversions do not result in lost or misinterpreted data
    Page: FIO45-C. Avoid TOCTOU race conditions while accessing files
    Page: MSC17-C. Finish every set of statements associated with a case label with a break statement
    Page: MEM01-C. Store a new value in pointers immediately after free()
    Page: ARR38-C. Guarantee that library functions do not form invalid pointers
    Page: EXP44-C. Do not rely on side effects in operands to sizeof, _Alignof, or _Generic
    Page: DCL36-C. Do not declare an identifier with conflicting linkage classifications
    Page: INT30-C. Ensure that unsigned integer operations do not wrap
    Page: ENV33-C. Do not call system()
    Page: STR38-C. Do not confuse narrow and wide character strings and functions
    Page: EXP16-C. Do not compare function pointers to constant values
    Page: FIO34-C. Distinguish between characters read from a file and EOF or WEOF
    Page: FIO46-C. Do not access a closed file
    Page: ERR32-C. Do not rely on indeterminate values of errno
    Page: FIO38-C. Do not copy a FILE object
    Page: DCL41-C. Do not declare variables inside a switch statement before the first case label
    Page: FIO47-C. Use valid format strings
    Page: INT32-C. Ensure that operations on signed integers do not result in overflow
    Page: CON40-C. Do not refer to an atomic variable twice in an expression
    Page: ERR30-C. Take care when reading errno
    Page: POS35-C. Avoid race conditions while checking for the existence of a symbolic link
    Page: PRE31-C. Avoid side effects in arguments to unsafe macros
    Page: MEM30-C. Do not access freed memory
    Page: CON37-C. Do not call signal() in a multithreaded program
    Page: EXP33-C. Do not read uninitialized memory
    Page: ARR36-C. Do not subtract or compare two pointers that do not refer to the same array
    Page: ERR33-C. Detect and handle standard library errors
    Page: ARR30-C. Do not form or use out-of-bounds pointers or array subscripts
    Page: CON30-C. Clean up thread-specific storage
    Page: FIO30-C. Exclude user input from format strings
    Page: EXP46-C. Do not use a bitwise operator with a Boolean-like operand
    Page: INT34-C. Do not shift an expression by a negative number of bits or by greater than or equal to the number of bits that exist in the operand
    Page: MSC37-C. Ensure that control never reaches the end of a non-void function
    Page: EXP36-C. Do not cast pointers into more strictly aligned pointer types
    Page: MSC13-C. Detect and remove unused values
    Page: DCL37-C. Do not declare or define a reserved identifier
    Page: EXP10-C. Do not depend on the order of evaluation of subexpressions or the order in which side effects take place
    Page: INT36-C. Converting a pointer to integer or integer to pointer
    Page: EXP34-C. Do not dereference null pointers
    Page: INT33-C. Ensure that division and remainder operations do not result in divide-by-zero errors
    Page: WIN30-C. Properly pair allocation and deallocation functions
    Page: CON43-C. Do not allow data races in multithreaded code
    Page: FIO42-C. Close files when they are no longer needed
    Page: STR34-C. Cast characters to unsigned char before converting to larger integer sizes
    Page: MSC11-C. Incorporate diagnostic tests using assertions
    Page: EXP32-C. Do not access a volatile object through a nonvolatile reference
    Page: CON32-C. Prevent data races when accessing bit-fields from multiple threads
    Page: ARR39-C. Do not add or subtract a scaled integer to a pointer
    Page: DCL30-C. Declare objects with appropriate storage durations
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    Page: ARR32-C. Ensure size arguments for variable length arrays are in a valid range
    Page: STR31-C. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator
    Page: EXP37-C. Call functions with the correct number and type of arguments
    Page: EXP43-C. Avoid undefined behavior when using restrict-qualified pointers
    Page: POS30-C. Use the readlink() function properly
    Page: EXP12-C. Do not ignore values returned by functions
    Page: ARR37-C. Do not add or subtract an integer to a pointer to a non-array object
    Page: FLP36-C. Preserve precision when converting integral values to floating-point type
    Page: STR30-C. Do not attempt to modify string literals
    Page: MEM31-C. Free dynamically allocated memory when no longer needed
    Page: FLP34-C. Ensure that floating-point conversions are within range of the new type
    Page: DCL40-C. Do not create incompatible declarations of the same function or object
    Page: MSC30-C. Do not use the rand() function for generating pseudorandom numbers
    Page: MEM34-C. Only free memory allocated dynamically
    Page: POS54-C. Detect and handle POSIX library errors
    Page: MEM05-C. Avoid large stack allocations
    Page: MSC07-C. Detect and remove dead code
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