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Arithmetic type - Assignment

This message is issued whenever an expression of essentially floating type undergoes an assigning conversion to plain char type.

For example: 


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4451 --*/

void foo (char b);

char f4451 (float a)
{
  char pca = a;             /* 4451 */

  foo (a + 1.0f);           /* 4451 */

  pca = (1.0f / 3.0f);      /* 4451 */

  return a;                 /* 4451 */
}

QA·C Source Code Analyser 8.1.2
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