Synopsis

(Advisory) The declaration of an object should contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

Declarations that contain more than two levels of pointer indirection have been found. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-5-0-19, MISRAC2004-17.5, MISRAC2012-Rule-18.5.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void) {
    int ***p;
}

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

void example(void) {
    int **p;
}