Synopsis

(Advisory) Legacy for statements should be simple

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Low

Full description

The increment or decrement of the loop variable must be simple (++, --, +=, -=) and constant This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-6-5-4.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void)
{
  int i;
  for(i = 0; i != 10; i= i * i) {}
}

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

void example(void)
{
  bool b;
  for(int i = 0; i != 10 || b; i-=2) {}
}