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	2892	Apparent: Negative value implicitly converted to an unsigned type.

Conversion to unsigned

An apparent anomaly has been detected.

The value of an object or a non-constant expression is being converted to an unsigned type and preceding operations suggest that the value will sometimes be negative. Is this really intended ? The operation will be well defined but is likely at best to be confusing.

The unsigned value which results will the be the value obtained by repeatedly adding or subtracting one more than the maximum value that can be represented in the new type until the value is in the range of the new type.

For example, in the following code, if char is an 8 bit type and the value of sia is negative, the value assigned to ucx will be the value obtained by repeatedly adding 256 to the value of sia until a non-negative value is achieved..


/*PRQA S 291,2017,2983,2986,3199,3203,3227,3408 ++*/

void foo(int sia)
{
    unsigned char ucx;

    if (sia < 0)
    {
    }

    ucx = sia;               /* 2892 3757 */
}

See also:

2890 Constant: Negative value implicitly converted to an unsigned type.
2891 Definite: Negative value implicitly converted to an unsigned type.
2893 Suspicious: Negative value implicitly converted to an unsigned type.
2895 Constant: Negative value cast to an unsigned type.
2896 Definite: Negative value cast to an unsigned type.
2897 Apparent: Negative value cast to an unsigned type.
2898 Suspicious: Negative value cast to an unsigned type.

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