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Constraint violations REFERENCE - ISO:C90-6.1.3.4 Character Constants - Constraints

This is a constraint error

The escape sequence is an octal or hexadecimal value and is too large for an 'unsigned char' or 'wchar_t' type. For example: 


/*PRQA S 753,3122,3211,3408,3610,3625,3628 ++*/

char *s = "\400";                    /* Message 0338 */

MISRA-C:2004 Rules applicable to message 0338:

Rule  1.1  (Required) All code shall conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 C programming language, ISO 9899, amended and corrected by ISO/IEC 9899/COR1:1995, ISO/IEC 9899/AMD1:1995, and ISO/IEC 9899/COR2: 1996192

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1
MISRA-C:2004 Compliance Module 3.2
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