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Title:	MSC21-C. Use robust loop termination conditions
Author:	David Svoboda	Apr 17, 2009
Last Changed by:	Francesco Mariani	Aug 31, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/x9YxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (1)     Page: ARR30-C. Do not form or use out-of-bounds pointers or array subscripts

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 48. Miscellaneous (MSC)

• rose-possible
• android-applicable
• exceptions
• recommendation
• msc

Time	Editor
Aug 31, 2025 05:18	Francesco Mariani	View Changes
May 20, 2025 09:28	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Jul 29, 2024 14:38	Yozo TODA	View Changes
wow, and changed from INT_MAX to SIZE_MAX.
Jul 29, 2024 14:34	Yozo TODA	View Changes
Robert missed to change the final occurence of int to size_t at rev.15
Jun 24, 2021 09:44	Svyatoslav Razmyslov

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    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v621/
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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/PVS-Studio
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.msc21…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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