Synopsis

Do not violate constraints.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

The C Standard, 6.9.1, paragraph 6 outlines the following constraint: an identifier declared as a typedef name shall not be redeclared as a parameter.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

typedef int X;

void example(X X);

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

typedef int X;

void example(void);