Chapter 3. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

Recommendations and Rules

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Risk Assessment Summary

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DCL00-C. const-qualify immutable objects

Immutable objects should be const-qualified. Enforcing object immutability using const qualification helps ensure the correctness and security of applications. ISO/IEC PDTR 24772, for example, recommends labeling parameters as constant to avoid the unintentional modification of function arguments. STR05-C, “Use pointers to const when referring to string literals,” describes a specialized case of this recommendation. ...

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