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IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V 3.40

MISRAC++2023-12.2.3

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Synopsis

(Required) A named bit-field with signed integer type shall not have a length of one bit

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/Low

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Full description

Signed single-bit bitfields (excluding anonymous fields) were found. This check is identical to MISRAC++2008-9-6-4, MISRAC2004-6.5, MISRAC2012-Rule-6.2, STRUCT-signed-bit.

Coding standards
MISRA C:2004 6.5

(Required) Bitfields of signed type shall be at least 2 bits long.

MISRA C:2012 Rule-6.2

(Required) Single-bit named bit fields shall not be of a signed type

MISRA C++ 2008 9-6-4

(Required) Named bit-fields with signed integer type shall have a length of more than one bit.

Code examples

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

struct S
{
  signed int a : 1; // Non-compliant
};

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

struct S
{
  signed int b : 2;
  signed int   : 0;
  signed int   : 1;
  signed int   : 2;
};