I need someone who has more experience with MISRA to help me to solve this. I have the following code:
byte* buf = new(std::nothrow) byte[bufferSize];
.....
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < bufferSize; i+=4)
{
..............
{
buf[ i+0 ] = b;
buf[ i+1 ] = g;
buf[ i+2 ] = r;
(1) Event misra_violation: [Required] MISRA C++-2008 Rule 5-0-15 violation: Array indexing shall be the only form of pointer arithmetic.
buf[ i+3 ] = a;
}
MISRA Rule 5-0-15 doesn't allow also ptr++ or ptr--. What should be the approach here to increment/decrement and assign values using pointers created by new?
My MISRA checker is Coverity 7.0.3.3.
There is no problem with your code. It uses array indexing as required. Your static analyser is broken.
I feel the "for" should have condition with "i+3".
for (uint32_t i = 0; i+3 < bufferSize; i+=4)
This could solve the problem.
Let me know if it solves.
Ok, I found a way this to work:
byte* buf = new(std::nothrow) byte[bufferSize];
.....
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < bufferSize; i+=4)
{
..............
uint32_t k = i;
buf[k] = b;
k++;
buf[k] = g;
k++;
buf[k] = r;
k++;
buf[k] = a;
}
It seems that MISRA does not likes the index arithmetic to be inside the [] brackets. I am not sure if this is not a bug in the tool, maybe it is fixed in the newer Coverity tools.
The following DO NOT work ( MISRA again complains with Rule 5-0-15 violation):
byte* buf = new(std::nothrow) byte[bufferSize];
.....
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < bufferSize; i+=4)
{
..............
uint32_t k = i;
buf[k++] = b;
buf[k++] = g;
buf[k++] = r;
buf[k++] = a;
}