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 ### External Contributions
 
+* [#1264](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1264): \[cpp] Fix NullPointerException in CPPTokenizer:99 - [Rafael Cortês](https://github.com/mrfyda)
 * [#1258](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1258): \[java] Use typeof in MissingSerialVersionUID - [krichter722](https://github.com/krichter722)