Synopsis

(Required) The unary & operator shall not be overloaded.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/Low

Full description

Occurances of overloaded & operators were found. This check is identical to PTR-overload, MISRAC++2023-16.5.2.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

class C{
  bool x;
  bool* operator&();
};

bool* C::operator&(){
  return &x;
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

class C{
  int x;
  int operator+(int other);
};

int C::operator+(int other){
  return x + other;
}