Secure Coding Practices - The industry emphasizes the importance of using SuperGrok to check C code for vulnerabilities [1] - The industry follows OWASP and CERT guidelines to ensure secure coding standards, including input sanitization, secure defaults, and least privilege [2] - The industry implements secure error handling, including comprehensive error codes, safe error reporting functions, and graceful handling of partial failures [3] - The industry advocates for the principle of least privilege, ensuring functions only access what they need with clear separation of concerns [3] - The industry includes checks for size calculations against SIZE_MAX, array index bounds validation, and safe arithmetic operations to protect against integer overflow [3] Vulnerability Prevention - The industry prevents format string attacks by avoiding user-controlled format strings and using safe printing functions [4] - The industry validates all inputs consistently, uses early returns on invalid conditions, and implements fail-safe defaults for defensive programming [4] - The industry ensures consistent allocation/deallocation patterns, checks all allocations for failure, and proper cleanup on error paths to prevent memory management issues [4] - The industry handles malformed inputs gracefully, maintains proper state management, avoids stack overflows, and uses safe tokenization for parsing robustness [5] - The industry covers various security test cases, including null/empty inputs, oversized inputs, malformed data, UTF-8 validation, memory exhaustion limits, buffer overflows, integer overflows, and format string attacks [5] Performance and Efficiency - The industry minimizes allocations, uses efficient single-pass processing, designs for memory locality and cache efficiency, and fails fast on invalid inputs for performance considerations [6]