diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/.clang-tidy
index aa9f598740..36ac3d6f91 100644
--- a/.clang-tidy
+++ b/.clang-tidy
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Checks: >
     -cppcoreguidelines-no-malloc,
     -cppcoreguidelines-non-private-member-variables-in-classes,
     -cppcoreguidelines-owning-memory,
-    -cppcoreguidelines-pro-bounds-array-to-pointer-decay,
     -cppcoreguidelines-pro-bounds-pointer-arithmetic,
     -cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-const-cast,
     -cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init,
diff --git a/src/breadthFirstSearch/binaryBreadthFirstSearch_driver.cpp b/src/breadthFirstSearch/binaryBreadthFirstSearch_driver.cpp
index 3377fa5343..7d2f294afb 100644
--- a/src/breadthFirstSearch/binaryBreadthFirstSearch_driver.cpp
+++ b/src/breadthFirstSearch/binaryBreadthFirstSearch_driver.cpp
@@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ pgr_do_binaryBreadthFirstSearch(
     std::ostringstream err;
     std::ostringstream notice;
     const char *hint = nullptr;
-    const char c_err_msg[] = "Graph Condition Failed: Graph should have at most two distinct non-negative edge costs! "
-                             "If there are exactly two distinct edge costs, one of them must equal zero!";
+    const std::string c_err_msg =
+        "Graph Condition Failed: Graph should have at most two distinct "
+        "non-negative edge costs! If there are exactly two distinct edge "
+        "costs, one of them must equal zero!";
 
     try {
         pgassert(!(*log_msg));
diff --git a/src/common/assert.cpp b/src/common/assert.cpp
index 98000e1c2b..58f229326d 100644
--- a/src/common/assert.cpp
+++ b/src/common/assert.cpp
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 #include <array>
 #include <string>
 #include <exception>
-
+#include <iterator>
 
 std::string get_backtrace() {
 #ifdef __GLIBC__
@@ -50,11 +50,14 @@ std::string get_backtrace() {
         char** funcNames = backtrace_symbols(trace.data(), trace_size);
 
         std::string message = "\n*** Execution path***\n";
-        for (i = 0; i < trace_size; ++i) {
-            message += "[bt]" + static_cast<std::string>(funcNames[i]) + "\n";
+        if (funcNames == nullptr) {
+            message += "[bt] backtrace_symbols failed\n";
+        } else {
+            for (i = 0; i < trace_size; ++i) {
+                message += "[bt]" + static_cast<std::string>(funcNames[i]) + "\n";
+            }
+            free(funcNames);
         }
-
-        free(funcNames);
         return message;
 #else
         return "";