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Title:	EXP05-C. Do not cast away a const qualification
Author:	Hal Burch	Jun 16, 2006
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 20, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/P9YxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (5)     Page: CC. Undefined Behavior     Page: EXP40-C. Do not modify constant objects     Page: DCL13-C. Declare function parameters that are pointers to values not changed by the function as const     Page: STR05-C. Use pointers to const when referring to string literals     Page: DCL00-C. Const-qualify immutable objects

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 03. Expressions (EXP)

• ldra
• gcc
• compass/rose
• android-applicable
• exceptions
• rose-complete
• recommendation
• declar-init
• exp

Time	Editor
May 20, 2025 07:07	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Nov 25, 2024 12:57	Caden Milne	View Changes
Updated UB references from C11->C23
Apr 20, 2023 05:56	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 23, 2021 12:10	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 21, 2021 05:12	Jill Britton

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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.exp05…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/704.html
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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