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Title:	MEM02-C. Immediately cast the result of a memory allocation function call into a pointer to the allocated type
Author:	Robert Seacord	Sep 04, 2006
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 20, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/99YxBQ
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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.mem02…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    c-faq.com/malloc/cast.html
    c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html

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