QA·C Help - 1824

	1824	The %1s operand is non-constant and 'essentially signed' (%2s) but will be implicitly converted to an unsigned type (%3s) in this conditional operation.

Arithmetic type - Balancing

This message is issued whenever a non-constant expression of essentially signed type has been used as the 2nd or 3rd operand of the conditional operator, and undergoes a usual arithmetic conversion to an unsigned integer type (the type of the other operand).

For example:


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 1824 --*/

unsigned f1824 (int a, unsigned b)
{
  return (a > 0) ? (a - 1) : b; /* 1824 */
}