Synopsis

(Advisory) The result of an assignment operator should not be used

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/High

Full description

An assignment might be mistakenly used as the condition for an if, for, while, or do statement. This check is identical to EXP-cond-assign.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

int example(void) {
  int x = 2;
  if (x = 3)
    return 1;
  return 0;
}

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

int example(void) {
  int x = 2;
  if (x == 3)
    return 1;
  return 0;
}