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CERT C Secure Coding Standard: last call for reviewers

CERT C Secure Coding Standard: last call for reviewers

Posted Mar 18, 2008 14:30 UTC (Tue) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: CERT C Secure Coding Standard: last call for reviewers by ajross
Parent article: CERT C Secure Coding Standard: last call for reviewers

Interesting that they use the form "ptr == NULL" in their comparisons, rather than
constant-first comparison to avoid accidental assignment typos. Wasn't that the root cause of
at least one severe X.org security bug in the last few years?


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