Synopsis

(Required) A loop counter shall not have essentially floating type.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

A loop counter were found having floating type. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-6-5-1_a, CERT-FLP30-C_a.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

int main() {
   for (float i = 0.0; i < 10.0; ++i)
   {
   }
   return 0;
}

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

int main() {
   for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
   {
   }
   return 0;
}