Cannot say that this is unexpected, but I was interested to find some papers, presumably these two: Assessing the Value of Coding Standards: An Empirical Study

Cannot say that this is unexpected, but I was interested to find some papers, presumably these two: Assessing the Value of Coding Standards: An Empirical Study [1], Language subsetting in an industrial context: A comparison of misra c 1998 and misra c 2004 [2] [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.559.7854&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.559... [2] http://leshatton.org/Documents/MISRA_comp_1105.pdf http://leshatton.org/Documents/MISRA_comp_1105.pdf