Synopsis

(Advisory) Declarations should contain no more than two levels of pointer nesting

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

Declarations that contain more than two levels of pointer indirection have been found. This check is identical to MISRAC2004-17.5, MISRAC++2008-5-0-19, MISRAC++2023-11.3.2.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void) {
    int ***p;
}

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

void example(void) {
    int **p;
}