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I moved the C++ pages to have their own incomplete-cpp tag since it looks to me like we are not focusing on them just yet. -alexv

Thanks, that will help. -rCs

In the same vein, I changed the incomplete java pages to use 'incomplete-java' tag. There are now exactly 3 incomplete rules. -svoboda


As per Douglas's comment INT11-A. Do not make assumptions about the layout of bit-field structures has no business being in INT... should we move it to DCL? (Alternatively we need better examples that aren't solved by ARR37-C. Do not add or subtract an integer to a pointer to a non-array object)- alexv 5/14

I was delaying action on this because Dan Saks was going to work on it. -rCs


A bunch of pages have screwed-up formatting, where some character, such as [ (open-brace) is backslashed. This defeats its purposes of indicating a link. I've also seen this on open-braces. Someone needs to traverse the rules and clean these up. -5/9 started cjohns (got as far as FIO05-A)


The Risk Assessment Summary tables for each section need to be updated (they are out of date with the actual rules).

last checked 5/19 - alexv

  • FLP02 is missing a risk assessment
  • ERR06 is missing a risk assessment

Rule/Recommendation about floating point exceptions

  • what in particular should be written about these? should this go under Signals b/c of SIGFPE or under FLP02 as that is already started? - alexv 4/15

I thought Abhijit Rao was going to replace FLP02-A with FLP03-A. Detect and handle floating point errors, but instead he create a new recommendation.

I think the plan should be to consolidate these two recommendations into FLP02-A. This will also solve the problem that "FLP02 is missing a risk assessment"


I've looked at some of the C rules and recommendations, and here are my
recommendations (smile) for copying them across to C++.

DCL05-A - OK more-or-less as is.
DCL06-A - OK more-or-less as is.
DCL07-A - needs rethinking for C++.
DCL09-A - not appropriate for C++ because of ERR00-A.
DCL10-A - needs some reworking for C++ (note that ISO/IEC 14882-2003
does not use the term "variadic function").
DCL11-A - ditto.
DCL12-A - perhaps needs reworking for C++.
DCL30-C - needs reworking for C++.
DCL32-C - what are the C++ requirements on identifier length?
DCL33-C - not applicable?
DCL34-C - OK more-or-less as is.
DCL35-C - OK more-or-less as is, but need to change printf's in CS.
DCL36-C - needs reworking for C++.

EXP00-A - OK more-or-less as is.
EXP01-A - needs different examples.
EXP03-A - needs different examples.
EXP04-A - OK more-or-less as is.
EXP07-A - needs rethinking for C++.
EXP08-A - perhaps already covered by OBJ30-C.
EXP09-A - OK more-or-less as is.
EXP34-C - perhaps covered by DAN34-C.
EXP35-C - this appears to require some rethinking anyway.
EXP36-C - needs some thought for C++.

INT00-A - needs reworking for C++.
INT07-A - needs reworking for C++.
INT30-C - needs reworking for C++.
INT35-C - needs reworking for C++.
INT37-C - needs reworking for C++.

That's as far as I got.

By "OK more-or-less as is" I mean that it can be copied over as it is
but the references to C and the C Standard clearly must be changed to
C++.


When you copy this rule over to the C++ side:

FIO34-C. Use int to capture the return value of character IO functions

Be sure to add something about istream::get() which return int values, not char values.


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