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Title: Rec. 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)  
Author: Sandy Shrum Mar 05, 2015
Last Changed by: David Svoboda Mar 15, 2022
Tiny Link: (useful for email) https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/bNUxBQ
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    Page: 3 Recommendations
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    Page: API00-C. Functions should validate their parameters
    Page: API01-C. Avoid laying out strings in memory directly before sensitive data
    Page: API02-C. Functions that read or write to or from an array should take an argument to specify the source or target size
    Page: API03-C. Create consistent interfaces and capabilities across related functions
    Page: API04-C. Provide a consistent and usable error-checking mechanism
    Page: API05-C. Use conformant array parameters
    Page: API07-C. Enforce type safety
    Page: API09-C. Compatible values should have the same type
    Page: API10-C. APIs should have security options enabled by default
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