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Title: STR11-C. Do not specify the bound of a character array initialized with a string literal  
Author: Robert Seacord (Manager) May 27, 2008
Last Changed by: Joerg Herter Oct 29, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email) https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/4NUxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (3)
    Page: ARR02-C. Explicitly specify array bounds, even if implicitly defined by an initializer
    Page: STR32-C. Do not pass a non-null-terminated character sequence to a library function that expects a string
    Page: STR30-C. Do not attempt to modify string literals
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    Page: Applicable in Principle to Android (C Rules/Recomendations)
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    Page: Rec. 07. Characters and Strings (STR)
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    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.str11…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
SEI CERT C Coding Standard (26)     Page: STR32-C. Do not pass a non-null-terminated character sequence to a library function that expects a string
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