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Arithmetic type - Casts

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

For example:


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4315 --*/

void foo (float b);

float f4315 (char a)
{
  foo ((float) a);          /* 4315 */

  foo ((float) (a + 1));    /* 4315 */

  return ((float) a);       /* 4315 */
}

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