Synopsis

A pointer to a FILE object is dereferenced.

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

A pointer to a FILE object is dereferenced.

Coding standards

This check does not correspond to any coding standard rules.

Code examples

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

#include <stdio.h>

void example(void) {
   FILE *pf1;
   FILE f3;

   f3 = *pf1;
}

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

#include <stdio.h>

void example(void) {
  FILE *f1;
  FILE *f2;

  f1 = f2;
}