Synopsis

(Required) The second and third operands of the ternary operator shall have the same essential type category.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Low

Full description

The second and third operands of the ternary operator do not have the same essential type category.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void) {
  int x;
  float y;
  int z = (x > 0)?x:y;
}

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

void example(void) {
  int x;
  float y;
  int z = (x > 0)?x:(x+1);
}