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Arithmetic type - Casts

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

For example:


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4310 --*/

void foo (_Bool b);

_Bool f4310 (char a)
{
  foo ((_Bool) a);          /* 4310 */

  foo ((_Bool) (a + 1));    /* 4310 */

  return ((_Bool) a);       /* 4310 */
}

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