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Title:	PRE31-C. Avoid side effects in arguments to unsafe macros
Author:	Robert Seacord	Sep 28, 2007
Last Changed by:	Jill Britton	Oct 09, 2023
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/I9YxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (4)     Page: EXP44-C. Do not rely on side effects in operands to sizeof, _Alignof, or _Generic     Page: PRE12-C. Do not define unsafe macros     Page: PRE00-C. Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros     Page: FIO41-C. Do not call getc(), putc(), getwc(), or putwc() with a stream argument that has side effects

SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: EXP52-CPP. Do not rely on side effects in unevaluated operands

Parent Page     Page: Rule 01. Preprocessor (PRE)

• sample
• rose-na-macros
• android-applicable
• exceptions
• ptc
• rule
• pre
• in-cpp

Time	Editor
Oct 09, 2023 13:49	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 20, 2023 05:04	Jill Britton	View Changes
Jul 04, 2022 07:09	Michal Rozenau	View Changes
Parasoft C/C++test update
May 27, 2022 06:34	Alexander Wagner	View Changes
May 19, 2022 10:37	Jon O'Donnell

External Links (8)
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html
    gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrulepre31…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…

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