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Title:	STR30-C. Do not attempt to modify string literals
Author:	Admin	Jun 13, 2006
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 06, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/VtYxBQ
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Android (1)     Page: Applicable in Principle to Android (C Rules/Recomendations)

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: Rule 07. Characters and Strings (STR)

Parent Page     Page: Rule 07. Characters and Strings (STR)

• ldra
• compass/rose
• splint
• android-applicable
• ptc
• rose-partial
• rule
• str
• in-cpp

Time	Editor
May 06, 2025 10:43	David Svoboda	View Changes
May 05, 2025 08:49	Caden Milne	View Changes
May 05, 2025 08:47	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Mar 27, 2025 16:20	Caden Milne	View Changes
Identify undefined behavior
Nov 25, 2024 12:27	Caden Milne
Updated UB references from C11->C23

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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Co…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/STR11-C.+Do+n…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrulestr30…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/PVS-Studio
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkstemp.…
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v675/
    https://taas.trust-in-soft.com/tsnippet/t/952d807d
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/Klocwork
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/EXP05-C.+Do+n…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/AA.+Bibliogra…

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