Synopsis

(Required) const member functions shall not return non-const pointers or references to class-data.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

A member function qualified as const returns a pointer member variable. This check is identical to CONST-member-ret.

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:

class C{
  int* foo() const {
    return p;
  }
  int* p;
};

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

class C{
  int* foo() {
    return p;
  }
  int* p;
};