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Care must be taken to make Make sure that included header file names are unique. According to C99 \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\]: |
The implementation shall provide unique mappings for sequences consisting of one or more nondigits or digits (6.4.2.1) followed by a period (.) and a single nondigit. The first character shall not be a digit. The implementation may ignore distinctions of alphabetical case and restrict the mapping to eight significant characters before the period.
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Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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PRE08-C | low | unlikely | medium | P2 | L3 |
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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as : PRE08-CPP. Guarantee that header file names are unique.
Bibliography
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 6.10.2, "Source file inclusion" \[[MISRA 042004|AA. Bibliography#MISRA 04]\] Rule 19.5 |
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