Synopsis

(Required) The declaration of objects should contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

One or more declarations of objects were found that contain more than two levels of pointer indirection. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-5-0-19, MISRAC2012-Rule-18.5, MISRAC++2023-11.3.2.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void) {
    int ***p;
}

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

void example(void) {
    int **p;
}