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Arithmetic type - Casts

This message is issued whenever an expression of essentially Boolean type has been cast to plain char type.

For example: 


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4301 --*/

void foo (char c);

char f4301 (int a, _Bool b)
{
  foo ((char) (a < 0));      /* 4301 */

  return ((char) b);         /* 4301 */
}

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1.2
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