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Title:	PRE05-C. Understand macro replacement when concatenating tokens or performing stringification
Author:	Robert Seacord	Sep 25, 2007
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 19, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/4dYxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: PRE01-C. Use parentheses within macros around parameter names     Page: PRE00-C. Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros

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

• android-applicable
• unenforceable
• recommendation
• pre

Time	Editor
May 19, 2025 14:59	David Svoboda	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Mar 04, 2025 16:39	Anirban Gangopadhyay	View Changes
Jan 30, 2025 00:19	Amy Gale	View Changes
Update CodeSonar mapping info
Apr 20, 2023 06:23	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 27, 2022 08:26	Jill Britton

External Links (8)
    gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Stringification.html
    gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.0/cpp/Concatenation.html#Con…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.pre05…
    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…

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