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Title:	EXP39-C. Do not access a variable through a pointer of an incompatible type
Author:	pranav kukreja	Nov 08, 2008
Last Changed by:	Jill Britton	Apr 20, 2023
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/ptYxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (3)     Page: DD. Unspecified Behavior     Page: CC. Undefined Behavior     Page: MEM02-C. Immediately cast the result of a memory allocation function call into a pointer to the allocated type

Parent Page     Page: Rule 03. Expressions (EXP)

• nptc
• rose-possible
• android-applicable
• rule
• exp
• cwe-119
• nptc-aliasing
• in-cpp

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Jun 24, 2021 09:36	Svyatoslav Razmyslov	View Changes
Apr 22, 2021 12:28	Jill Britton

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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
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    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html
    mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/08/11/0001.html
    www.cellperformance.com/mike_acton/2006/06/understanding_st…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/How+this+Codi…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/AA.+Bibliogra…
    https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html704.html
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v580/
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcruleexp39…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/PVS-Studio
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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