LANG.STRUCT.TMID : Too Much Indirection in Declaration

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The amount of indirection in a declaration exceeds the limit specified by MAX_PERMITTED_INDIRECTION_IN_DECLARATION.

Class Name

Too Much Indirection in Declaration

Significance

style

Mnemonic

LANG.STRUCT.TMID

Categories

MisraC2023	MisraC2023:18.5	Declarations should contain no more than two levels of pointer nesting
Misra2012	Misra2012:18.5	Declarations should contain no more than two levels of pointer nesting
AUTOSARC++14	AUTOSARC++14:A5-0-3	The declaration of objects shall contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection.
MisraC++2008	MisraC++2008:5-0-19	The declaration of objects shall contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection.
MisraC++2023	MisraC++2023:11.3.2	The declaration of objects should contain no more than two levels of pointer indirection
CWE	CWE:710	Improper Adherence to Coding Standards
JSF++	JSF++:169	Pointers to pointers should be avoided when possible.
	JSF++:170	More than 2 levels of pointer indirection shall not be used.
JPL	JPL:26	Use no more than two levels of indirection per declaration.

Availability

Available for C and C++.

Enabling

Checks for this warning class are disabled by default, and require the unnormalized C ASTs for the project. To enable them, add the following WARNING_FILTER rule and RETAIN_UNNORMALIZED_C_AST specification to the project configuration file.

RETAIN_UNNORMALIZED_C_AST = Yes
WARNING_FILTER += allow class="Too Much Indirection in Declaration"

Note that retaining the unnormalized ASTs will increase the disk space used to store the project representation, and may make the analysis take longer.

char ***ppzstrings; /* 'Too Much Indirection in Declaration' warning issued here */

The following configuration file parameters affect checks for this warning class.

LANG.STRUCT.TMID : Too Much Indirection in Declaration

Summary

Properties

Example

Relevant Configuration File Parameters