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AUTOSAR C++14 Rules

List and description of AUTOSAR C++14 rules supported by Polyspace®

Polyspace can check your code against the AUTOSAR C++14 rules. To check Polyspace coverage of AUTOSAR C++14 rules, see Polyspace Support for Coding Standards.Use the Check AUTOSAR C++14 (-autosar-cpp14) analysis option to activate subsets of the rules.

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AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-1A project shall not contain instances of non-volatile variables being given values that are not subsequently used (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-2The value returned by a function having a non-void return type that is not an overloaded operator shall be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-3Every function defined in an anonymous namespace, or static function with internal linkage, or private member function shall be used (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-4There shall be no unused named parameters in non-virtual functions
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-5There shall be no unused named parameters in the set of parameters for a virtual function and all the functions that override it (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-1-6There should be no unused type declarations
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-4-2Type long double shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A0-4-4Range, domain and pole errors shall be checked when using math functions (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-1A project shall not contain unreachable code
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-2A project shall not contain infeasible paths
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-3A project shall not contain unused variables
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-4A project shall not contain non-volatile POD variables having only one use (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-8All functions with void return type shall have external side effect(s) (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-9There shall be no dead code
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-1-10Every defined function should be called at least once
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-2-1An object shall not be assigned to an overlapping object
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M0-3-2If a function generates error information, then that error information shall be tested (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A1-1-1All code shall conform to ISO/IEC 14882:2014 - Programming Language C++ and shall not use deprecated features
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-3-1Only those characters specified in the C++ Language Standard basic source character set shall be used in the source code (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-5-1Trigraphs shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-5-2Digraphs shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-7-1The character \ shall not occur as a last character of a C++ comment (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-7-2Sections of code shall not be "commented out" (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-7-3All declarations of "user-defined" types, static and non-static data members, functions and methods shall be preceded by documentation (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-8-1A header file name should reflect the logical entity for which it provides declarations. (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-8-2An implementation file name should reflect the logical entity for which it provides definitions. (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-10-1An identifier declared in an inner scope shall not hide an identifier declared in an outer scope
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-10-4The identifier name of a non-member object with static storage duration or static function shall not be reused within a namespace (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-10-5An identifier name of a function with static storage duration or a non-member object with external or internal linkage should not be reused (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-10-6A class or enumeration name shall not be hidden by a variable, function or enumerator declaration in the same scope (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-11-1Volatile keyword shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-1Only those escape sequences that are defined in ISO/IEC 14882:2014 shall be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-2String literals with different encoding prefixes shall not be concatenated
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-3Type wchar_t shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-4String literals shall not be assigned to non-constant pointers
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-5Hexadecimal constants should be uppercase
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A2-13-6Universal character names shall be used only inside character or string literals (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M2-7-1The character sequence /* shall not be used within a C-style comment
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M2-10-1Different identifiers shall be typographically unambiguous
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M2-13-2Octal constants (other than zero) and octal escape sequences (other than "\0" ) shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M2-13-3A "U" suffix shall be applied to all octal or hexadecimal integer literals of unsigned type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M2-13-4Literal suffixes shall be upper case
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-1It shall be possible to include any header file in multiple translation units without violating the One Definition Rule
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-2Header files, that are defined locally in the project, shall have a file name extension of one of: .h, .hpp or .hxx
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-3Implementation files, that are defined locally in the project, should have a file name extension of ".cpp"
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-4When an array with external linkage is declared, its size shall be stated explicitly
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-5A function definition shall only be placed in a class definition if (1) the function is intended to be inlined (2) it is a member function template (3) it is a member function of a class template (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-1-6Trivial accessor and mutator functions should be inlined (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-3-1Objects or functions with external linkage (including members of named namespaces) shall be declared in a header file
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-3-2Static and thread-local objects shall be constant-initialized (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-8-1An object shall not be accessed outside of its lifetime (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A3-9-1Fixed width integer types from <cstdint>, indicating the size and signedness, shall be used in place of the basic numerical types
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-1-2Functions shall not be declared at block scope
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-2-1All declarations of an object or function shall have compatible types
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-2-2The One Definition Rule shall not be violated
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-2-3A type, object or function that is used in multiple translation units shall be declared in one and only one file
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-2-4An identifier with external linkage shall have exactly one definition
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-3-2If a function has internal linkage then all re-declarations shall include the static storage class specifier
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-4-1An identifier declared to be an object or type shall be defined in a block that minimizes its visibility
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-9-1The types used for an object, a function return type, or a function parameter shall be token-for-token identical in all declarations and re-declarations
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M3-9-3The underlying bit representations of floating-point values shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A4-5-1Expressions with type enum or enum class shall not be used as operands to built-in and overloaded operators other than the subscript operator [], the assignment operator =, the equality operators == and !=, the unary & operator, and the relational operators <, <=, >, >= (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A4-7-1An integer expression shall not lead to data loss (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A4-10-1Only nullptr literal shall be used as the null-pointer-constraint (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M4-5-1Expressions with type bool shall not be used as operands to built-in operators other than the assignment operator =, the logical operators &&, ||, !, the equality operators == and ! =, the unary & operator, and the conditional operator
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M4-5-3Expressions with type (plain) char and wchar_t shall not be used as operands to built-in operators other than the assignment operator =, the equality operators == and ! =, and the unary & operator
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M4-10-1NULL shall not be used as an integer value
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M4-10-2Literal zero (0) shall not be used as the null-pointer-constant
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-0-1The value of an expression shall be the same under any order of evaluation that the standard permits
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-0-2The condition of an if-statement and the condition of an iteration statement shall have type bool
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-0-3The declaration of objects shall contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-0-4Pointer arithmetic shall not be used with pointers to non-final classes
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-1Literal values shall not be used apart from type initialization, otherwise symbolic names shall be used instead
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-2Variables shall not be implicitly captured in a lambda expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-3Parameter list (possibly empty) shall be included in every lambda expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-4A lambda expression object shall not outlive any of its reference-captured objects
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-6Return type of a non-void return type lambda expression should be explicitly specified (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-7A lambda shall not be an operand to decltype or typeid
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-8Lambda expressions should not be defined inside another lambda expression (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-1-9Identical unnamed lambda expressions shall be replaced with a named function or a named lambda expression (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-1dynamic_cast should not be used (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-2Traditional C-style casts shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-3A cast shall not remove any const or volatile qualification from the type of a pointer or reference
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-4reinterpret_cast shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-5An array or container shall not be accessed beyond its range (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-2-6The operands of a logical && or || shall be parenthesized if the operands contain binary operators
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-3-1Evaluation of the operand to the typeid operator shall not contain side effects (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-3-2Null pointers shall not be dereferenced (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-3-3Pointers to incomplete class types shall not be deleted
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-5-1A pointer to member shall not access non-existent class members (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-6-1The right hand operand of the integer division or remainder operators shall not be equal to zero
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-10-1A pointer to member virtual function shall only be tested for equality with null-pointer-constant (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A5-16-1The ternary conditional operator shall not be used as a sub-expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-2Limited dependence should be placed on C++ operator precedence rules in expressions
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-3A cvalue expression shall not be implicitly converted to a different underlying type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-4An implicit integral conversion shall not change the signedness of the underlying type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-5There shall be no implicit floating-integral conversions
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-6An implicit integral or floating-point conversion shall not reduce the size of the underlying type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-7There shall be no explicit floating-integral conversions of a cvalue expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-8An explicit integral or floating-point conversion shall not increase the size of the underlying type of a cvalue expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-9An explicit integral conversion shall not change the signedness of the underlying type of a cvalue expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-10If the bitwise operators ~and << are applied to an operand with an underlying type of unsigned char or unsigned short, the result shall be immediately cast to the underlying type of the operand
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-11The plain char type shall only be used for the storage and use of character values
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-12Signed char and unsigned char type shall only be used for the storage and use of numeric values
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-14The first operand of a conditional-operator shall have type bool
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-15Array indexing shall be the only form of pointer arithmetic
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-16A pointer operand and any pointer resulting from pointer arithmetic using that operand shall both address elements of the same array (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-17Subtraction between pointers shall only be applied to pointers that address elements of the same array
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-18>, >=, <, <= shall not be applied to objects of pointer type, except where they point to the same array
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-20Non-constant operands to a binary bitwise operator shall have the same underlying type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-0-21Bitwise operators shall only be applied to operands of unsigned underlying type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-2A pointer to a virtual base class shall only be cast to a pointer to a derived class by means of dynamic_cast
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-3Casts from a base class to a derived class should not be performed on polymorphic types
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-6A cast shall not convert a pointer to a function to any other pointer type, including a pointer to function type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-8An object with integer type or pointer to void type shall not be converted to an object with pointer type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-9A cast shall not convert a pointer type to an integral type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-10The increment (++) and decrement (--) operators shall not be mixed with other operators in an expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-11The comma operator, && operator and the || operator shall not be overloaded
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-2-12An identifier with array type passed as a function argument shall not decay to a pointer
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-3-1Each operand of the ! operator, the logical && or the logical || operators shall have type bool
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-3-2The unary minus operator shall not be applied to an expression whose underlying type is unsigned
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-3-3The unary & operator shall not be overloaded
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-3-4Evaluation of the operand to the sizeof operator shall not contain side effects
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-8-1The right hand operand of a shift operator shall lie between zero and one less than the width in bits of the underlying type of the left hand operand
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-14-1The right hand operand of a logical &&, || operators shall not contain side effects
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-18-1The comma operator shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M5-19-1Evaluation of constant unsigned integer expressions shall not lead to wrap-around
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-2-1Move and copy assignment operators shall either move or respectively copy base classes and data members of a class, without any side effects (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-2-2Expression statements shall not be explicit calls to constructors of temporary objects only
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-4-1A switch statement shall have at least two case-clauses, distinct from the default label
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-5-1A for-loop that loops through all elements of the container and does not use its loop-counter shall not be used (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-5-2A for loop shall contain a single loop-counter which shall not have floating-point type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-5-3Do statements should not be used (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-5-4For-init-statement and expression should not perform actions other than loop-counter initialization and modification
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A6-6-1The goto statement shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-2-1Assignment operators shall not be used in sub-expressions
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-2-2Floating-point expressions shall not be directly or indirectly tested for equality or inequality
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-2-3Before preprocessing, a null statement shall only occur on a line by itself; it may be followed by a comment, provided that the first character following the null statement is a white-space character
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-3-1The statement forming the body of a switch, while, do ... while or for statement shall be a compound statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-1An if ( condition ) construct shall be followed by a compound statement. The else keyword shall be followed by either a compound statement, or another if statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-2All if ... else if constructs shall be terminated with an else clause
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-3A switch statement shall be a well-formed switch statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-4A switch-label shall only be used when the most closely-enclosing compound statement is the body of a switch statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-5An unconditional throw or break statement shall terminate every non-empty switch-clause
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-6The final clause of a switch statement shall be the default-clause
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-4-7The condition of a switch statement shall not have bool type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-5-2If loop-counter is not modified by -- or ++, then, within condition, the loop-counter shall only be used as an operand to <=, <, > or >=
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-5-3The loop-counter shall not be modified within condition or statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-5-4The loop-counter shall be modified by one of: --, ++, -=n, or +=n; where n remains constant for the duration of the loop
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-5-5A loop-control-variable other than the loop-counter shall not be modified within condition or expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-5-6A loop-control-variable other than the loop-counter which is modified in statement shall have type bool
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-6-1Any label referenced by a goto statement shall be declared in the same block, or in a block enclosing the goto statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-6-2The goto statement shall jump to a label declared later in the same function body
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M6-6-3The continue statement shall only be used within a well-formed for loop
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-1Constexpr or const specifiers shall be used for immutable data declaration (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-2The constexpr specifier shall be used for values that can be determined at compile time (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-3CV-qualifiers shall be placed on the right hand side of the type that is a typedef or a using name
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-4The register keyword shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-5The auto specifier shall not be used apart from following cases: (1) to declare that a variable has the same type as return type of a function call, (2) to declare that a variable has the same type as initializer of non-fundamental type, (3) to declare parameters of a generic lambda expression, (4) to declare a function template using trailing return type syntax (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-6The typedef specifier shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-7Each expression statement and identifier declaration shall be placed on a separate line
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-8A non-type specifier shall be placed before a type specifier in a declaration (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-1-9A class, structure, or enumeration shall not be declared in the definition of its type
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-2-1An expression with enum underlying type shall only have values corresponding to the enumerators of the enumeration (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-2-2Enumeration underlying type shall be explicitly defined
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-2-3Enumerations shall be declared as scoped enum classes
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-2-4In an enumeration, either (1) none, (2) the first or (3) all enumerators shall be initialized
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-3-1All overloads of a function shall be visible from where it is called
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-5-1A function shall not return a reference or a pointer to a parameter that is passed by reference to const
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-5-2Functions shall not call themselves, either directly or indirectly
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-6-1Functions declared with the [[noreturn]] attribute shall not return (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-1-2A pointer or reference parameter in a function shall be declared as pointer to const or reference to const if the corresponding object is not modified
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-3-1The global namespace shall only contain main, namespace declarations and extern "C" declarations
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-3-2The identifier main shall not be used for a function other than the global function main
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-3-3There shall be no unnamed namespaces in header files
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-3-4Using-directives shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-3-6Using-directives and using-declarations (excluding class scope or function scope using-declarations) shall not be used in header files
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A7-4-1The asm declaration shall not be used (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-4-2Assembler instructions shall only be introduced using the asm declaration
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-4-3Assembly language shall be encapsulated and isolated
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-5-1A function shall not return a reference or a pointer to an automatic variable (including parameters), defined within the function
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M7-5-2The address of an object with automatic storage shall not be assigned to another object that may persist after the first object has ceased to exist (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-2-1When declaring function templates, the trailing return type syntax shall be used if the return type depends on the type of parameters (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-1Functions shall not be defined using the ellipsis notation
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-2All exit paths from a function with non-void return type shall have an explicit return statement with an expression
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-3Common ways of passing parameters should be used. (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-4Multiple output values from a function should be returned as a struct or tuple (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-5"consume" parameters declared as X && shall always be moved from (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-6"forward" parameters declared as T && shall always be forwarded (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-7"in" parameters for "cheap to copy" types shall be passed by value
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-8Output parameters shall not be used (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-9"in-out" parameters declared as T & shall be modified (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-10A parameter shall be passed by reference if it can't be NULL (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-11A smart pointer shall only be used as a parameter type if it expresses lifetime semantics (Since R2022b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-12A std::unique_ptr shall be passed to a function as: (1) a copy to express the function assumes ownership (2) an lvalue reference to express that the function replaces the managed object. (Since R2022b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-13A std::shared_ptr shall be passed to a function as: (1) a copy to express the function shares ownership (2) an lvalue reference to express that the function replaces the managed object (3) a const lvalue reference to express that the function retains a reference count. (Since R2022b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-4-14Interfaces shall be precisely and strongly typed
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-5-0All memory shall be initialized before it is read
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-5-1In an initialization list, the order of initialization shall be following: (1) virtual base classes in depth and left to right order of the inheritance graph, (2) direct base classes in left to right order of inheritance list, (3) non-static data members in the order they were declared in the class definition
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-5-2Braced-initialization {}, without equals sign, shall be used for variable initialization
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-5-4If a class has a user-declared constructor that takes a parameter of type std::initializer_list, then it shall be the only constructor apart from special member function constructors (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A8-5-3A variable of type auto shall not be initialized using {} or ={} braced-initialization (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M8-0-1An init-declarator-list or a member-declarator-list shall consist of a single init-declarator or member-declarator respectively
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M8-3-1Parameters in an overriding virtual function shall either use the same default arguments as the function they override, or else shall not specify any default arguments
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M8-4-2The identifiers used for the parameters in a re-declaration of a function shall be identical to those in the declaration
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M8-4-4A function identifier shall either be used to call the function or it shall be preceded by &
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M8-5-2Braces shall be used to indicate and match the structure in the non-zero initialization of arrays and structures
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A9-3-1Member functions shall not return non-constant "raw" pointers or references to private or protected data owned by the class
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A9-5-1Unions shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A9-6-1Data types used for interfacing with hardware or conforming to communication protocols shall be trivial, standard-layout and only contain members of types with defined sizes
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M9-3-1Const member functions shall not return non-const pointers or references to class-data
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M9-3-3If a member function can be made static then it shall be made static, otherwise if it can be made const then it shall be made const
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M9-6-4Named bit-fields with signed integer type shall have a length of more than one bit (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-1-1Class shall not be derived from more than one base class which is not an interface class (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-2-1Non-virtual public or protected member functions shall not be redefined in derived classes
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-3-1Virtual function declaration shall contain exactly one of the three specifiers: (1) virtual, (2) override, (3) final (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-3-2Each overriding virtual function shall be declared with the override or final specifier (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-3-3Virtual functions shall not be introduced in a final class (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-3-5A user-defined assignment operator shall not be virtual (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A10-4-1Hierarchies should be based on interface classes (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M10-1-1Classes should not be derived from virtual bases
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M10-1-2A base class shall only be declared virtual if it is used in a diamond hierarchy
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M10-1-3An accessible base class shall not be both virtual and non-virtual in the same hierarchy
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M10-2-1All accessible entity names within a multiple inheritance hierarchy should be unique
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M10-3-3A virtual function shall only be overridden by a pure virtual function if it is itself declared as pure virtual
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A11-0-1A non-POD type should be defined as class (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A11-0-2A type defined as struct shall: (1) provide only public data members, (2) not provide any special member functions or methods, (3) not be a base of another struct or class, (4) not inherit from another struct or class (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A11-3-1Friend declarations shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M11-0-1Member data in non-POD class types shall be private
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-0-1If a class declares a copy or move operation, or a destructor, either via "=default", "=delete", or via a user-provided declaration, then all others of these five special member functions shall be declared as well (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-0-2Bitwise operations and operations that assume data representation in memory shall not be performed on objects (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-1Constructors shall explicitly initialize all virtual base classes, all direct non-virtual base classes and all non-static data members
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-2Both NSDMI and a non-static member initializer in a constructor shall not be used in the same type (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-3If all user-defined constructors of a class initialize data members with constant values that are the same across all constructors, then data members shall be initialized using NSDMI instead (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-4All constructors that are callable with a single argument of fundamental type shall be declared explicit
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-5Common class initialization for non-constant members shall be done by a delegating constructor (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-1-6Derived classes that do not need further explicit initialization and require all the constructors from the base class shall use inheriting constructors (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-4-1Destructor of a base class shall be public virtual, public override or protected non-virtual (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-4-2If a public destructor of a class is non-virtual, then the class should be declared final (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-6-1All class data members that are initialized by the constructor shall be initialized using member initializers
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-7-1If the behavior of a user-defined special member function is identical to implicitly defined special member function, then it shall be defined "=default" or be left undefined (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-1Move and copy constructors shall move and respectively copy base classes and data members of a class, without any side effects (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-2User-defined copy and move assignment operators should use user-defined no-throw swap function (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-3Moved-from object shall not be read-accessed (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-4Move constructor shall not initialize its class members and base classes using copy semantics (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-5A copy assignment and a move assignment operators shall handle self-assignment
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-6Copy and move constructors and copy assignment and move assignment operators shall be declared protected or defined "=delete" in base class (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A12-8-7Assignment operators should be declared with the ref-qualifier & (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M12-1-1An object's dynamic type shall not be used from the body of its constructor or destructor
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-1-2User defined suffixes of the user defined literal operators shall start with underscore followed by one or more letters (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-1-3User defined literals operators shall only perform conversion of passed parameters (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-2-1An assignment operator shall return a reference to "this"
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-2-2A binary arithmetic operator and a bitwise operator shall return a "prvalue" (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-2-3A relational operator shall return a boolean value (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-3-1A function that contains "forwarding reference" as its argument shall not be overloaded (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-5-1If "operator[]" is to be overloaded with a non-const version, const version shall also be implemented (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-5-2All user-defined conversion operators shall be defined explicit (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-5-3User-defined conversion operators should not be used (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-5-4If two opposite operators are defined, one shall be defined in terms of the other (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-5-5Comparison operators shall be non-member functions with identical parameter types and noexcept (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A13-6-1Digit sequences separators ' shall only be used as follows: (1) for decimal, every 3 digits, (2) for hexadecimal, every 2 digits, (3) for binary, every 4 digits (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-1-1A template should check if a specific template argument is suitable for this template (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-5-1A template constructor shall not participate in overload resolution for a single argument of the enclosing class type (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-5-2Class members that are not dependent on template class parameters should be defined in a separate base class
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-5-3A non-member generic operator shall only be declared in a namespace that does not contain class (struct) type, enum type or union type declarations
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-7-1A type used as a template argument shall provide all members that are used by the template (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-7-2Template specialization shall be declared in the same file (1) as the primary template (2) as a user-defined type, for which the specialization is declared (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A14-8-2Explicit specializations of function templates shall not be used (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M14-5-3A copy assignment operator shall be declared when there is a template assignment operator with a parameter that is a generic parameter
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M14-6-1In a class template with a dependent base, any name that may be found in that dependent base shall be referred to using a qualified-id or this->
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-0-2At least the basic guarantee for exception safety shall be provided for all operations. In addition, each function may offer either the strong guarantee or the nothrow guarantee (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-0-3Exception safety guarantee of a called function shall be considered (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-0-7Exception handling mechanism shall guarantee a deterministic worst-case time execution time (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-1-1Only instances of types derived from std::exception should be thrown (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-1-2An exception object shall not be a pointer
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-1-3All thrown exceptions should be unique (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-1-4If a function exits with an exception, then before a throw, the function shall place all objects/resources that the function constructed in valid states or it shall delete them. (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-1-5Exceptions shall not be thrown across execution boundaries (Since R2022b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-2-1Constructors that are not noexcept shall not be invoked before program startup
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-2-2If a constructor is not noexcept and the constructor cannot finish object initialization, then it shall deallocate the object's resources and it shall throw an exception (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-3-3Main function and a task main function shall catch at least: base class exceptions from all third-party libraries used, std::exception and all otherwise unhandled exceptions (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-3-4Catch-all (ellipsis and std::exception) handlers shall be used only in (a) main, (b) task main functions, (c) in functions that are supposed to isolate independent components and (d) when calling third-party code that uses exceptions not according to AUTOSAR C++14 guidelines (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-3-5A class type exception shall be caught by reference or const reference
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-4-1Dynamic exception-specification shall not be used (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-4-2If a function is declared to be noexcept, noexcept(true) or noexcept(<true condition>), then it shall not exit with an exception
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-4-3The noexcept specification of a function shall either be identical across all translation units, or identical or more restrictive between a virtual member function and an overrider (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-4-4A declaration of non-throwing function shall contain noexcept specification (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-4-5Checked exceptions that could be thrown from a function shall be specified together with the function declaration and they shall be identical in all function declarations and for all its overriders (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-5-1All user-provided class destructors, deallocation functions, move constructors, move assignment operators and swap functions shall not exit with an exception. A noexcept exception specification shall be added to these functions as appropriate (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-5-2Program shall not be abruptly terminated. In particular, an implicit or explicit invocation of std::abort(), std::quick_exit(), std::_Exit(), std::terminate() shall not be done (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A15-5-3The std::terminate() function shall not be called implicitly
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-0-3Control shall not be transferred into a try or catch block using a goto or a switch statement
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-1-1The assignment-expression of a throw statement shall not itself cause an exception to be thrown (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-1-2NULL shall not be thrown explicitly
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-1-3An empty throw (throw;) shall only be used in the compound statement of a catch handler
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-3-1Exceptions shall be raised only after startup and before termination
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-3-3Handlers of a function-try-block implementation of a class constructor or destructor shall not reference non-static members from this class or its bases
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-3-4Each exception explicitly thrown in the code shall have a handler of a compatible type in all call paths that could lead to that point (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-3-6Where multiple handlers are provided in a single try-catch statement or function-try-block for a derived class and some or all of its bases, the handlers shall be ordered most-derived to base class
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M15-3-7Where multiple handlers are provided in a single try-catch statement or function-try-block, any ellipsis (catch-all) handler shall occur last
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-0-1The preprocessor shall only be used for unconditional and conditional file inclusion and include guards, and using specific directives
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-2-1The ', ", /*, //, \ characters shall not occur in a header file name or in #include directive
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-2-2There shall be no unused include directives (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-2-3 An include directive shall be added explicitly for every symbol used in a file (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-6-1#error directive shall not be used (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A16-7-1The #pragma directive shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-1#include directives in a file shall only be preceded by other preprocessor directives or comments
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-2Macros shall only be #define'd or #undef'd in the global namespace
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-5Arguments to a function-like macro shall not contain tokens that look like pre-processing directives
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-6In the definition of a function-like macro, each instance of a parameter shall be enclosed in parentheses, unless it is used as the operand of # or ##
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-7Undefined macro identifiers shall not be used in #if or #elif pre-processor directives, except as operands to the defined operator
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-0-8If the # token appears as the first token on a line, then it shall be immediately followed by a preprocessing token
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-1-1The defined pre-processor operator shall only be used in one of the two standard forms
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-1-2All #else, #elif and #endif pre-processor directives shall reside in the same file as the #if or #ifdef directive to which they are related
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-2-3Include guards shall be provided
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-3-1There shall be at most one occurrence of the # or ## operators in a single macro definition
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M16-3-2The # and ## operators should not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A17-0-1Reserved identifiers, macros and functions in the C++ standard library shall not be defined, redefined or undefined
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A17-1-1Use of the C Standard Library shall be encapsulated and isolated (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A17-6-1Non-standard entities shall not be added to standard namespaces (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M17-0-2The names of standard library macros and objects shall not be reused
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M17-0-3The names of standard library functions shall not be overridden
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M17-0-5The setjmp macro and the longjmp function shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-0-1The C library facilities shall only be accessed through C++ library headers
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-0-2The error state of a conversion from string to a numeric value shall be checked
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-0-3The library <clocale> (locale.h) and the setlocale function shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-1-1C-style arrays shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-1-2The std::vector<bool> specialization shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-1-3The std::auto_ptr shall not be used (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-1-4A pointer pointing to an element of an array of objects shall not be passed to a smart pointer of single object type (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-1-6All std::hash specializations for user-defined types shall have a noexcept function call operator (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-1Functions malloc, calloc, realloc and free shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-2Non-placement new or delete expressions shall not be used (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-3The form of delete operator shall match the form of new operator used to allocate the memory
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-4If a project has sized or unsized version of operator 'delete' globally defined, then both sized and unsized versions shall be defined
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-5Memory management functions shall ensure the following: (a) deterministic behavior resulting with the existence of worst-case execution time, (b) avoiding memory fragmentation, (c) avoid running out of memory, (d) avoiding mismatched allocations or deallocations, (e) no dependence on non-deterministic calls to kernel (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-7If non-real-time implementation of dynamic memory management functions is used in the project, then memory shall only be allocated and deallocated during non-real-time program phases (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-8Objects that do not outlive a function shall have automatic storage duration (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-9Custom implementations of dynamic memory allocation and deallocation functions shall meet the semantic requirements specified in the corresponding "Required behaviour" clause from the C++ Standard (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-10Placement new shall be used only with properly aligned pointers to sufficient storage capacity (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-5-11"operator new" and "operator delete" shall be defined together (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-9-1The std::bind shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-9-2Forwarding values to other functions shall be done via: (1) std::move if the value is an rvalue reference, (2) std::forward if the value is forwarding reference (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-9-3The std::move shall not be used on objects declared const or const& (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A18-9-4An argument to std::forward shall not be subsequently used (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M18-0-3The library functions abort, exit, getenv and system from library <cstdlib> shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M18-0-4The time handling functions of library <ctime> shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M18-0-5The unbounded functions of library <cstring> shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M18-2-1The macro offsetof shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M18-7-1The signal handling facilities of <csignal> shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M19-3-1The error indicator errno shall not be used
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-1An already-owned pointer value shall not be stored in an unrelated smart pointer (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-2A std::unique_ptr shall be used to represent exclusive ownership (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-3A std::shared_ptr shall be used to represent shared ownership (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-4A std::unique_ptr shall be used over std::shared_ptr if ownership sharing is not required (Since R2022b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-5std::make_unique shall be used to construct objects owned by std::unique_ptr (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-6std::make_shared shall be used to construct objects owned by std::shared_ptr (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A20-8-7A std::weak_ptr shall be used to represent temporary shared ownership. (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A21-8-1Arguments to character-handling functions shall be representable as an unsigned char
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A23-0-1An iterator shall not be implicitly converted to const_iterator (Since R2020a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A23-0-2Elements of a container shall only be accessed via valid references, iterators, and pointers (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A25-1-1Non-static data members or captured values of predicate function objects that are state related to this object's identity shall not be copied (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A25-4-1Ordering predicates used with associative containers and STL sorting and related algorithms shall adhere to a strict weak ordering relation (Since R2022a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A26-5-1Pseudorandom numbers shall not be generated using std::rand()
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A26-5-2Random number engines shall not be default-initialized (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A27-0-1Inputs from independent components shall be validated. (Since R2021b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A27-0-2A C-style string shall guarantee sufficient space for data and the null terminator (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A27-0-3Alternate input and output operations on a file stream shall not be used without an intervening flush or positioning call (Since R2020b)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule A27-0-4C-style strings shall not be used (Since R2021a)
AUTOSAR C++14 Rule M27-0-1The stream input/output library <cstdio> shall not be used

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