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Security risks due to using software macros are numerous. This article describes some known issues.

References

  • Michael D. Ernst; Greg J. Badros; David Notkin (December 2002). "An Empirical Analysis of C Preprocessor Use". C Preprocessor, Macros. 28 (12): 1146–1170. doi:10.1109/TSE.2002.1158288.
  • Steven E. Ganz; Amr Sabry; Walid Taha (2001). "Macros as multi-stage computations: Type-safe, generative, binding macros in MacroML". Macro Language. 36 (10): 74–85. doi:10.1145/507669.507646.
  • Gerard J. Holzmann. "The power of ten - Rules for developing safety critical code" (PDF). safety of macros. p. 4.
  • William Clinger; Jonathan Rees (1991). "Macros that work". Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '91. pp. 155–162. doi:10.1145/99583.99607. ISBN 0897914198. S2CID 5340096. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Vesselin Bontchev (1996). "Possible macro virus attacks and how to prevent them". Virus, Macros, Safety of Macros. 15 (7): 595–626. doi:10.1016/S0167-4048(97)88131-X.

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