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Constraint violations REFERENCE - ISO:C90-6.5.7 Initialization - Constraints, Semantics

This is a constraint error

An array is being initialised with a string literal which contains too many characters. For example: 


/*PRQA S 2017,3122,3132,3211,3408,3625,3674 ++*/

char buf1[ ] = "Hello";     /* OK */
char buf2[6] = "Hello";     /* OK */
char buf3[4] = "Hello";     /* Message 0690 */

MISRA C:2012 Rules applicable to message 0690:

Rule-1.1  (Required) The program shall contain no violations of the standard C syntax and constraints, and shall not exceed the implementation's translation limits

See also:

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1
MISRA C:2012 Compliance Module 1.0
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