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Title: OOP57-CPP. Prefer special member functions and overloaded operators to C Standard Library functions  
Author: Aaron Ballman Jul 07, 2015
Last Changed by: David Svoboda Jun 25, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email) https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/lHs-BQ
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    Page: EXP62-CPP. Do not access the bits of an object representation that are not part of the object's value representation
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    Page: Rule 09. Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
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    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
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    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v780/
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcoop57cpp.…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v598/
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