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Title:	DCL41-C. Do not declare variables inside a switch statement before the first case label
Author:	Raunak Rungta	Nov 05, 2009
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 06, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/s9YxBQ
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Parent Page     Page: Rule 02. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

• not-for-cpp
• rose-possible
• android-applicable
• ptc
• rule
• dcl

Time	Editor
May 06, 2025 10:40	David Svoboda	View Changes
May 05, 2025 08:18	Caden Milne	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Mar 04, 2025 15:10	Caden Milne	View Changes
Identify undefined behavior
Dec 11, 2024 00:31	Swasti Shrivastava	View Changes
Oct 22, 2024 09:34	Caden Milne
Updated C11->C23

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    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcruledcl41…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/AA.+Bibliogra…
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    https://taas.trust-in-soft.com/tsnippet/t/60b8a984
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/PVS-Studio
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…

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