A comparison of real to false positive ratios between the 1998 and 2004 versions of the MISRA C guidelines on a common population of 7 commercial software packages.
On these results, MISRA C 2004 seems a step backwards and attempts at compliance with either document are essentially pointless until something is done about improving the wording of the standard and its match with existing experimental data. In its current form, the complexity and noisiness of the rules suggest that only the tool vendors are likely to benefit.
MISRA_comp_1105.pdf (212KB)
reference
Information and Software Technology 49 (5), p. 475-482, May 2007
