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`DCL60-CPP`: no alerts reported

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
testing, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the DCL60-CPP query and its test cases, then compare the cases marked COMPLIANT[FALSE_POSITIVE] with the corresponding .expected file. Run the relevant CodeQL tests and determine why no alerts are reported; done means the expected alerts appear consistently in the test results.

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Description

Difficulty-High Impact-Low Stardard-CERT-C++ test-improvement
Affected rules
  • DCL60-CPP
Description

No alert is reported by this query.
Even lines marked as COMPLIANT[FALSE_POSITIVE] in the test cases do not appear in the .expected file

Dominant language
CodeQL
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227
Forks
82
Avg merge
6d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

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