Synopsis

(Required) Functions shall not be declared at block scope.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Medium/Medium

Full description

A function declaration was found at block scope. This check is identical to MISRAC2004-8.6, MISRAC++2023-6.0.1_a.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

int foo() {
  int bar();
  return 0;
}

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

int foo() {
  return 0;
}
int bar();