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According to \[[MISRA 08|AA. C References#MISRA 08]\], concatenation of wide and narrow string literals leads to undefined behavior. This is an inplicit undefined behavior according to C99 \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\].

Noncompliant Code Example

This noncompliant code example concatenates wide and narrow string literals. The behavior is undefined in this case.

wchar_t *msg = L"This message is very long, so I want to divide it "
                "into two parts.";

Compliant Solution (wide string literals)

If the concatenated string needs to be a wide string literal, each element in the concatenation has to be a wide string literal.

wchar_t *msg = L"This message is very long, so I want to divide it "
               L"into two parts.";

Compliant Solution (narrow string literals)

If wide string literals are not necessary, it is better to use narrow string literals.

char* msg = "This message is very long, so I want to divide it "
            "into two parts.";

Risk Assessment

Concatenation of wide and narrow string literals leads to undefined behavior.

Related Vulnerabilities

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References

\[[MISRA 08|AA. C References#MISRA 08]\] Rule 2-13-5