Synopsis

(Required) An array passed as a function argument shall not decay to a pointer

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

Found array decaying to pointer in function call This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-5-2-12.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void f(int* p);

void example() {
  int a[4];
  f(a); // Non-compliant
}

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

void f(int (&p)[4]); // Only accepts size 4 arrays

void example() {
  int a[4];
  f(a); // Compliant
}