Synopsis

(Required) The volatile qualifier shall be used appropriately

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

High/High

Full description

Declaring local variables, parameters, return types, member functions or structured bindings can cause behaviour that is not well defined or well understood.

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:

void example()
{
  volatile int j; // Non-compliant
}

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

volatile int j; // Compliant

void example()
{
}