You could use MISRA guidelines for C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C

They seems to be behind a paywall so I can't comment much on that

But still, I believe you can't do much with C if you "shut down" pointers completely. Because strings are pointers in the end.

maybe the parent changed the link? the link appears to be wikipedia :)

Yes, the wiki has some recommendations (and I remember the C++ JSF standard) but if you follow the link to the actual document it seems to be behind a paywall

with my "use strict" perl example, the warnings had some carveouts.

For example it had a carveout so that "$a" and "$b" didn't have to be declared (I think they are known variable names for sort?)

Why not allow:

  printf("Hello world\n");

but turn off:

  acpi_ut_repair_name(&(*converted_name)[j]);

or

  if (atomic_read(&(*per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sds, cpu))->ref))