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C1Effective MISRA C
MISRA C:2023, including guidelines for safety and security supporting all published versions of the C standard

Objectives

  • Understand the C language pitfalls, the compilation process, static analysis techniques and tools
  • Understand the origin and nature of MISRA C and its role in the development of safe and secure software
  • Learn all important MISRA C guidelines and the unwanted phenomena they are designed to prevent
  • Understand the notion of compliance to MISRA C and the permitted deviation procedures
  • Discover and understand the advantages of the adoption of MISRA C and other best practices.
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF material in English (printed for face-to-face); online over Teams.
    • Trainer assistance throughout.
  • Each session starts with a trainee check-in.
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • Prerequisites are checked before the training.
  • Progress is assessed by quizzes at the end of sections.
  • Each trainee receives a completion certificate.
  • If a prerequisite gap appears, alternative or additional training is offered.

Course Outline

  • Review of undefined, unspecified and implementation-defined behavior in C
  • How the compilers may take advantage of undefined behavior
  • Review of explicit and implicit casts
    • Balancing
    • Promotion
    • Arithmetic conversions
  • Review of enumerated, integer and floating-point types: representation and operations.
  • Review of common integer pitfalls
    • Overflow
    • Sign error
    • Extension
    • Truncation
  • Review of common floating-point pitfalls
    • Error propagation
    • Comparison
    • Excess precision
  • Review of arrays, strings, pointer types and associated programming errors
    • access outside bounds
    • Null-termination
    • Truncation
    • Off-by-one errors
  • Introduction to MISRA
  • The purpose of MISRA C and its role in improving code quality
  • The MISRA C essential type system and other preliminary notions
  • MISRA C:2012 guidelines related to not fully defined behavior of C
  • Test on not fully defined behavior of C and related MISRA C guidelines
  • Other important MISRA C:2012 guidelines.
  • MISRA C:2012 guidelines for security
  • Test on MISRA C violations and the best ways to deal with them.
  • Properly formulating defensible claims of MISRA compliance.
  • Automatic verification of compliance to the MISRA C rules
    • Available tools
    • Tools proper configuration and use.
  • Demonstrative analysis of the MISRA C violations in real software projects
    • Along with the correct remediation measures.
Duration
5 days
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Next scheduled public sessions
from 12th to 16th of October, 2026
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Online EurAsia (9h-16h CET)
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from 16th to 20th of November, 2026
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Online EurAsia (9h-16h CET)
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This course can be provided either remotely, in our Paris training center or worldwide on your premises.

Scheduled classes are confirmed as soon as there is two confirmed bookings. Bookings are accepted until 1 week before the course start.

Last update of course schedule: 27 June 2026

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