Appendix A Summary of guidelines
Rule 1.1
C Syntax violation
Rule 1.2
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Rule 1.3
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Rule 2.1
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Rule 2.2
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Rule 2.3
Advisory - All defined types must be used. IE No unused types should be defined. 
Rule 2.4
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Rule 2.5
Advisory - Macro declared but not used
Rule 2.6
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Rule 2.7
Advisory - All function parameters must be used
Rule 3.1
Required - /* and // cannot used within a comment (ie No nested comments)
Rule 3.2
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Rule 4.1
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Rule 4.2
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Rule 5.1
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Rule 5.2
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Rule 5.3
Required - An identifier (variable) in an outer scope shall not be redfined within an inner scope
Rule 5.4
Required - Macro names must be unique
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Rule 5.6
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Rule 5.7
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Rule 5.8
Required - All identifiers must be unique
Rule 5.9
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Rule 6.1
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Rule 6.2
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Rule 7.1
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Rule 7.2
Required - All unsigned integer constants must have a 'u' or 'U' suffix
Rule 7.3
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Rule 7.4
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Rule 8.1
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Rule 8.2
Required - Function prototypes must have named parameters or void if none
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Rule 8.4
Required - Functions must have a prototype and prototype arguements/return types must match
Rule 8.5
Required - An object or function must only be declared once
Rule 8.6
Required - Externally identified object must be defined once and only once (Object has not been defined or was defined in multiple places)
Rule 8.7
Advisory - Objects and functions should only be made available externally if required
Rule 8.8
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Rule 8.9
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Rule 8.10
Required - All inline functions should be declared static
Rule 8.11
Advisory - Externally available arrays must have an explicitely declared size
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Rule 8.13
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Rule 8.14
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Rule 9.1
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Rule 9.2
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Rule 9.3
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Rule 9.4
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Rule 9.5
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Rule 10.1
Required - Operations must be of an essentially correct type (Eg no shift on signed values, comparison is not boolean, incrementing/decrementing a bool etc) 
Rule 10.2
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Rule 10.3
Required - The value from an expression must only be assigned to an object with the same or larger essential type
Rule 10.4
Required - The target of an operation must be of an appropriate type. Eg No implicit conversion of signed/unsigned. 
Rule 10.5
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Rule 10.6
Required - An expression should not assign a value to a variable of a narrower or essentially different type
Rule 10.7
Required - Complex int expression requires cast when widening objects
Rule 10.8
Required - A composite expression value should not be cast to a wider type or a different essential type
Rule 11.1
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Rule 11.2
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Rule 11.3
Required - A cast shall not be performed between a pointer to object type and a pointer to a different object type
Rule 11.4
Advisory - Object pointers should not be treated as or converted to integers
Rule 11.5
Advisory - A void pointer should not be converted to an object pointer
Rule 11.6
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Rule 11.7
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Rule 11.8
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Rule 11.9
Required - An integer null pointer shall have no value assigned other than NULL macro
Rule 12.1
Advisory - Order of operations within an expression must be explicit. Multiple conditions in a logical operation should have brackets around them.
Rule 12.2
Required - Right hand side of a shift operation must not exceed the width of the essential value. Potential shift too far or negative shift. 
Rule 12.3
Advisory - The comma operator is not permitted.
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Rule 13.1
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Rule 13.2
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Rule 13.3
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Rule 13.4
Advisory - Assignment operation should not be used in an expression (Check for = when == should have been used)
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Rule 13.6
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Rule 14.1
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Rule 14.2
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Rule 14.3
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Rule 14.4
Required - Non-Boolean type expression used in an if statement or the conditional iteration statement of a loop
Rule 15.1
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Rule 15.2
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Rule 15.3
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Rule 15.4
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Rule 15.5
Advisory - A function should only have a single return point
Rule 15.6
Required - Loops, switch and if/else statements must have brackets around their body
Rule 15.7
Required - 'else if' statements must terminate with a final 'else'
Rule 16.1
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Rule 16.2
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Rule 16.3
Required - All cases within switches must have an unconditional break statement
Rule 16.4
Required - All switch statements must have a default case
Rule 16.5
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Rule 16.6
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Rule 16.7
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Rule 17.1
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Rule 17.2
Required - Functions shall not call themselves, either directly or indirectly
Rule 17.3
Mandatory - No implicit function declarations
Rule 17.4
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Rule 17.5
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Rule 17.6
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Rule 17.7
Required - The value returned by a function having non-void return type shall be used
Rule 17.8
Advisory - An argument to a function should be treated as read-only
Rule 18.1
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Rule 18.2
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Rule 18.3
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Rule 18.4
Advisory - The +, -, += and -= operators should not be applied to an expression of pointer type
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Rule 18.6
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Rule 18.7
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Rule 18.8
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Rule 19.1
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Rule 19.2
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Rule 20.1
Required - Only comments and prepropccesor directives can come before #include statements
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Rule 20.3
Required - #include statements must be followed by a filename
Rule 20.4
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Rule 20.5
Advisory - Use of #undef is not permitted
Rule 20.6
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Rule 20.7
Required - Macro expressions and parameters must be enclosed in parentheses
Rule 20.8
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Rule 20.9
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Rule 20.10
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Rule 20.11
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Rule 20.12
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Rule 20.13
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Rule 20.14
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Rule 21.1
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Rule 21.2
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Rule 21.3
Required - Memory allocation functions (Eg malloc(), talloc() etc) shall not be used
Rule 21.4
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Rule 21.5
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Rule 21.6
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Rule 21.7
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Rule 21.8
Required - Termination functions from stdlib (Eg exit, abort etc) shall not be used 
Rule 21.9
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Rule 21.10
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Rule 21.11
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Rule 21.12
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Rule 22.1
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Rule 22.6
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