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Title:	EXP19-C. Use braces for the body of an if, for, or while statement
Author:	Unknown User (josephlu)	Mar 04, 2010
Last Changed by:	Francesco Mariani	Aug 06, 2025
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: PRE10-C. Wrap multistatement macros in a do-while loop     Page: PRE11-C. Do not conclude macro definitions with a semicolon

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

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    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v563/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.sonarsource.com/products/codeanalyzers/sonarcfa…
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v640/
    www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Syntactic-Convent…
    web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-1266
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.exp19…
    opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/libsecu…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/Polyspace+Bug…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/PVS-Studio
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v628/
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v705/
    https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

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