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Title:	EXP44-C. Do not rely on side effects in operands to sizeof, _Alignof, or _Generic
Author:	Robert Seacord	Oct 10, 2006
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 05, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/_NYxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: PRE31-C. Avoid side effects in arguments to unsafe macros     Page: DD. Unspecified Behavior

SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: EXP52-CPP. Do not rely on side effects in unevaluated operands

Parent Page     Page: Rule 03. Expressions (EXP)

• not-for-cpp
• ldra
• compass/rose
• code-defect
• android-applicable
• ptc
• rose-complete
• rule
• exp

Time	Editor
May 05, 2025 08:29	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Dec 07, 2023 09:34	Jon O'Donnell	View Changes
Apr 20, 2023 05:11	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 27, 2022 06:03	Jill Britton	View Changes
Jun 24, 2021 09:02	Svyatoslav Razmyslov

External Links (11)
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/cplusplus/EXP52…
    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/v568/
    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/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcruleexp44…

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