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CERT C: Rec. PRE00-C

Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros

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Description

Rule Definition

Prefer inline or static functions to function-like macros.1

Polyspace Implementation

The rule checker checks for Use of function-like macro instead of function.

Examples

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Issue

The issue occurs when you use a function-like macro instead of a function when the two are interchangeable.

Polyspace® considers all function-like macro definitions.

Risk

In most circumstances, use functions instead of macros. Functions perform argument type-checking and evaluate their arguments once, avoiding problems with potential multiple side effects.

Check Information

Group: Rec. 01. Preprocessor (PRE)

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

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1 This software has been created by MathWorks incorporating portions of: the “SEI CERT-C Website,” © 2017 Carnegie Mellon University, the SEI CERT-C++ Web site © 2017 Carnegie Mellon University, ”SEI CERT C Coding Standard – Rules for Developing safe, Reliable and Secure systems – 2016 Edition,” © 2016 Carnegie Mellon University, and “SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard – Rules for Developing safe, Reliable and Secure systems in C++ – 2016 Edition” © 2016 Carnegie Mellon University, with special permission from its Software Engineering Institute.

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