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Title:	PRE00-C. Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros
Author:	Robert Seacord	May 03, 2008
Last Changed by:	Joerg Herter	Oct 29, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/INcxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (7)     Page: PRE01-C. Use parentheses within macros around parameter names     Page: PRE02-C. Macro replacement lists should be parenthesized     Page: PRE10-C. Wrap multistatement macros in a do-while loop     Page: PRE11-C. Do not conclude macro definitions with a semicolon     Page: PRE12-C. Do not define unsafe macros     Page: MEM02-C. Immediately cast the result of a memory allocation function call into a pointer to the allocated type     Page: PRE31-C. Avoid side effects in arguments to unsafe macros

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 01. Preprocessor (PRE)

• ldra
• rose-na-macros
• android-applicable
• exceptions
• recommendation
• pre

Time	Editor
Oct 29, 2025 04:27	Joerg Herter	View Changes
May 19, 2025 14:57	David Svoboda	View Changes
May 19, 2025 14:55	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Dec 12, 2024 06:30	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
May 15, 2023 08:46	Alexander Wagner

External Links (7)
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/Polyspace+Bug…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.pre00…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://www.sonarsource.com/products/codeanalyzers/sonarcfa…

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