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Failing to parenthesize macro replacement lists can cause unexpected results.
Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood |
|---|
Detectable | Repairable | Priority | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
PRE02-C | Medium | Probable | Yes |
Yes | P12 | L1 |
Automated Detection
| Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axivion Bauhaus Suite |
| CertC-PRE02 | |||||||
| CodeSonar |
| LANG.PREPROC.MACROEND LANG.PREPROC.MACROSTART | Macro Does Not End With ) or } Macro Does Not Start With ( or { | ||||||
| CC2.PRE02 | Fully implemented | |||||||
| Helix QAC |
| C3409 | |||||||
| Klocwork |
| MISRA.DEFINE.BADEXP |
| LDRA tool suite |
| 77 S | Fully implemented | ||||||
| Parasoft C/C++test |
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| CERT_C-PRE02-a | Enclose the entire definition of a function-like macro in parentheses | ||||||||
| PC-lint Plus |
| 773, 973 | Fully supported |
Related Vulnerabilities
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
Related Guidelines
| SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard | VOID PRE02-CPP. Macro replacement lists should be parenthesized |
| ISO/IEC TR 24772:2013 | Operator Precedence/Order of Evaluation [JCW] Pre-processor Directives [NMP] |
Bibliography
| [Plum 1985] | Rule 1-1 |
| [Summit 2005] | Question 10.1 |
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