Simplify link target handling

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the implementations of RULE-5-8 and RULE-8-3 and tracing how each identifies a declaration's link target. Compare their handling to define the shared interface described in the issue; done means both rules use it and their link-target logic is simplified.

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Description

enhancement Standard-MISRA-C

Provide an interface for identifying the link target of a declaration, to simplify the implementation of RULE-5-8 and RULE-8-3.

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CodeQL
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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