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+# MISRA Compliance
+
+The jobs library files conform to the [MISRA C:2012](https://www.misra.org.uk)
+guidelines, with some noted exceptions. Compliance is checked with Coverity static analysis.
+The specific deviations, suppressed inline, are listed below.
+
+Additionally, [MISRA configuration file](https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-core-mqtt-file-streams-embedded-c/blob/main/tools/coverity/misra.config) contains the project wide deviations.
+
+### Suppressed with Coverity Comments
+To find the violation references in the source files run grep on the source code
+with ( Assuming rule 11.4 violation; with justification in point 2 ):
+```
+grep 'MISRA Ref 11.1.4' . -rI
+```
+
+MISRA Rule 21.6: use of snprintf to populate buffer
+
+MISRA Rule 7.4: Assignment of string literal to const uint8_t *
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