This is true, in most of these things you can document your way around the problem, though sometimes you also have a third-party to convince who may or may not

This is true, in most of these things you can document your way around the problem, though sometimes you also have a third-party to convince who may or may not be reasonable. But either way, MISRA is a collection of stating the obvious ("don't do things the language says you shouldn't do" is like fully half of the list) and arbitrary restrictions that have little justification, so the fact that you can document your way around it still basically means you're doing extra work for no real benefit (because it's real difficult within such a conservative field to say "hey, that industry standard? It's crap, has always been crap, and we're going to ignore it").