Synopsis

(Advisory) The right-hand operand of a logical && or || operator should not contain persistent side effects

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

There are right-hand operands of && or || operators that contain side effects. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-5-14-1, MISRAC2004-12.4, MISRAC2012-Rule-13.5.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

#include <stdlib.h>

void example(void) {
	int i;
	int size = rand() && i++;
}

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

#include <stdlib.h>

void example(void) {
	int i;
	int size = rand() && i;
}