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Title:	ARR39-C. Do not add or subtract a scaled integer to a pointer
Author:	Robert Seacord (Manager)	Jun 04, 2009
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 05, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/ytYxBQ
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Android (1)     Page: Unknown Applicability (C Rules/Recomendations)

SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: CTR56-CPP. Do not use pointer arithmetic on polymorphic objects

SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: STR38-C. Do not confuse narrow and wide character strings and functions     Page: ARR32-C. Ensure size arguments for variable length arrays are in a valid range

Parent Page     Page: Rule 06. Arrays (ARR)

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• cwe-468
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• nptc-intent
• in-cpp

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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://taas.trust-in-soft.com/tsnippet/t/f1268747
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/AA.+Bibliogra…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrulearr39…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Co…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/ARR30-C.+Do+n…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/AA.+Bibliogra…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/ARR37-C.+Do+n…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/468.html
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html

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