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Rule 12. Error Handling (ERR)

Created by Robert Seacord, last modified by David Svoboda on Mar 15, 2022

Information for Editors
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Risk Assessment Summary

Rule	Severity	Likelihood	Remediation Cost	Priority	Level
ERR30-C	Medium	Probable	Medium	P8	L2
ERR32-C	Low	Unlikely	Low	P3	L3
ERR33-C	High	Likely	Medium	P18	L1
ERR34-C	Medium	Unlikely	Medium	P4	L3

Related Rules and Recommendations

DCL09-C. Declare functions that return errno with a return type of errno_t

FIO40-C. Reset strings on fgets() or fgetws() failure

FLP03-C. Detect and handle floating-point errors

FLP32-C. Prevent or detect domain and range errors in math functions

MSC11-C. Incorporate diagnostic tests using assertions