Synopsis

(Advisory) A pointer should be const-qualified whenever possible.

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

A pointer was found that is not const-qualified.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

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

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

int example(const int *p) {
  return *p;
}