Synopsis

(Required) Assignment operators shall not be used in expressions that yield a boolean value.

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

Assignment operators were found in expressions that yield a Boolean value.

Coding standards

Code examples

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

void example(void) {
	int result;
	if (result = condition()) {
	}
}

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

void example(void) {
	int result = condition();
	if (result) {
	}
}