Tag: guidelines
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Not all MISRA rules are equal. Some can be checked perfectly by any tool, others are fundamentally impossible to verify with certainty. Knowing the difference saves you from arguing with your tool and tells you when your compliance is at risk, or when you are making a fool of yourself. After two articles (part 1,…
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Coding Guidelines are always useful. If you feel differently, you are doing it wrong. In this second article on that topic, we discuss how to reduce warnings and how to take valid shortcuts in your compliance process. In the end, it isn’t so bad, and you may get more safety without pulling out your hair.…
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Coding guidelines are always useful. If you feel differently, you are doing it wrong. In this article, I show how to significantly reduce the developer burden and make the guidelines work for you, instead of you working for them. We cover different types of guidelines, common setup problems in Static Analysis tools, and explain how…
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Memory safety is often tragically misunderstood. Claims like “it eliminates all memory errors” are at best misleading, and can be a recipe for disaster. In this article, I will explain what it really means, where it has limits, and why Static Analysis is the best way to eliminate memory errors. This post is a bit…
