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Arithmetic type - Casts

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

For example: 


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4351 --*/

void foo (char b);

char f4351 (float a)
{
  foo ((char) a);           /* 4351 */

  foo ((char) (a + 1.0f));  /* 4351 */

  return ((char) a);        /* 4351 */
}

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1.2
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