Method invalidPointerCastError

lib/checkother.cpp:582–588

void CheckOtherImpl::invalidPointerCastError(const Token* tok, const std::string& from, const std::string& to, bool inconclusive, bool toIsInt)
{
    if (toIsInt) { // If we cast something to int*, this can be useful to play with its binary data representation
        reportError(tok, Severity::portability, "invalidPointerCast", "Casting from " + from + " to " + to + " is not portable due to different binary data representations on different platforms.", CWE704, inconclusive ? Certainty::inconclusive : Certainty::normal);
    } else
        reportError(tok, Severity::portability, "invalidPointerCast", "Casting between " + from + " and " + to + " which have an incompatible binary data representation.", CWE704, Certainty::normal);
}


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