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MISRA (originally an abbreviation of Motor Industry Software Reliability Association) is an organization which has published the coding guidelines called MISRA-C and MISRA-C++. Each document is a set of rules aiming to create a safer sub-set of the respective language.

Why must the first 31 characters of an identifier be unique?

MISRA 2004 rule 5.1 states that all identifiers must have the first 31 characters unique. What is the reason for this rule? Is …

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