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Rule 5-0-19 are references also considered a 'pointer indirection'? - grunwald - 23-09-2016
More concretely, is the following code a violation?
Code:
typedef void **my_t;
void f(my_t& x)
{
x = NULL;
}Re: Rule 5-0-19 are references also considered a 'pointer indirection'? - misra cpp - 31-10-2016
References are not a level of indirection.
The rule is trying to limit the complexity when accessing / understanding multiple levels of pointers - a reference simply creates an alias for an object and does not add any further levels of indirection