Synopsis

(Required) A function identifier shall only be used with either a preceding &, or with a parenthesized parameter list, which may be empty.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/High

Full description

One or more function addresses are taken without an explicit &. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-8-4-4.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void func(void);

void
example(void)
{
    void (*pf)(void) = func;
}

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

void func(void);

void
example(void)
{
    void (*pf)(void) = &func;
}