MISRA C++:2023 rules mapped to Klocwork checkers

Guideline	Category	Checker name and description
Dir. 0.3.1	Required
Dir. 0.3.2	Required
Dir. 5.7.2	Required
Dir. 15.8.1	Required	CL.SELF-ASSIGN Use of free memory (double free) - in operator=
Rule 0.0.1	Required	UNREACH.ENUM Code is unreachable due to the possible value(s) of an enum UNREACH.GEN Unreachable code UNREACH.RETURN Unreachable Void Return UNREACH.SIZEOF Architecture-related unreachable code
Rule 0.0.2	Advisory	INVARIANT_CONDITION.GEN Invariant expression in a condition INVARIANT_CONDITION.UNREACH Invariant expression in a condition
Rule 0.1.1	Advisory	VA_UNUSED.GEN Value is Never Used after Assignment VA_UNUSED.INIT Value is Never Used after Initialization
Rule 0.1.2	Required	MISRA.FUNC.UNUSEDRET Return value of a non-void function is not used
Rule 0.2.1	Advisory	LV_UNUSED.GEN Local variable unused
Rule 0.2.2	Required	MISRA.FUNC.UNUSEDPAR Formal parameter of a non-virtual function is not used
Rule 0.2.3	Required
Rule 0.2.4	Advisory	UNUSED.FUNC.GEN Function defined but not used
Rule 4.1.1	Required
Rule 4.1.2	Advisory	MISRA.TOKEN.OCTAL.ESCAPE Usage of octal escape sequences MISRA.TOKEN.OCTAL.INT Usage of octal integer constants
Rule 4.1.3	Required	MISRA.ADDR.REF.PARAM Function returns reference to parameter passed by reference MISRA.ADDR.REF.PARAM.PTR Function returns address of parameter passed by reference MISRA.CONV.FLOAT Implicit floating-point conversion MISRA.DECL.EXCPT.SPEC Function is declared with different exception specifications MISRA.DEFINE.WRONGNAME Usage of a name from the standard library for naming a macro MISRA.DEFINE.WRONGNAME.UNDERSCORE Usage of a reserved name for naming a macro MISRA.INCL.UNSAFE Unsafe header inclusion MISRA.SPEC.SAMEFILE Template specialization and its primary template are declared in different files MISRA.STDLIB.CSTRING.MACRO Macro from 'cstring' library is used MISRA.TOKEN.WRONGESC.CPP.2008 Incorrect escape sequence in a literal
Rule 4.6.1	Required
Rule 5.0.1	Required	MISRA.CHAR.TRIGRAPH Trigraph usage
Rule 5.7.1	Required	MISRA.TOKEN.BADCOM Inappropriate character sequence in a comment
Rule 5.7.3	Required
Rule 5.10.1	Required
Rule 5.13.1	Required
Rule 5.13.2	Required
Rule 5.13.3	Required	MISRA.TOKEN.OCTAL.INT Usage of octal integer constants
Rule 5.13.4	Required	MISRA.LITERAL.UNSIGNED.SUFFIX Unsigned integer literal without 'U' suffix
Rule 5.13.5	Required
Rule 5.13.6	Required
Rule 5.13.7	Required	MISRA.STRINGS.CONCAT Narrow and wide string literals concatenated
Rule 6.0.1	Required	MISRA.DECL.FUNC_LOCAL Function is declared locally
Rule 6.0.2	Advisory	MISRA.DECL.ARRAY_SIZE Declaration of array with unknown size
Rule 6.0.3	Advisory	MISRA.NS.GLOBAL Function, variable or type declaration in global namespace MISRA.NS.GLOBAL.USING Using directive or declaration in global namespace
Rule 6.0.4	Required	MISRA.NS.MAIN Non-global function with name 'main' is defined
Rule 6.2.1	Required
Rule 6.2.2	Required	MISRA.OBJ.TYPE.COMPAT Type not compatible with type of other declaration
Rule 6.2.3	Required
Rule 6.2.4	Required	MISRA.ONEDEFRULE.FUNC Global function definition in a header file MISRA.ONEDEFRULE.VAR Global variable definition in a header file
Rule 6.4.1	Required	MISRA.VAR.HIDDEN Identifier declared in an inner scope hides identifier in outer scope
Rule 6.4.2	Required	MISRA.BASE.IDS.UNIQUE Member name is used twice in inheritance hierarchy
Rule 6.4.3	Required	MISRA.TEMPLMEM.NOQUAL In an instantiated template a member declared in a dependant base is used without a qualificator or 'this'
Rule 6.5.1	Advisory	MISRA.LINKAGE.EXTERN Object or function declaration with external linkage not in header file
Rule 6.5.2	Advisory
Rule 6.7.1	Required
Rule 6.7.2	Required
Rule 6.8.1	Required	LOCRET.RET Function returns address of local variable UFM.DEREF.MUST Use of Freed Memory by Pointer UFM.FFM.MIGHT Use of free memory (double free) - possible UFM.FFM.MUST Freeing Freed Memory UFM.RETURN.MIGHT Use of freed memory (return) - possible UFM.RETURN.MUST Use of Freed Memory on Return UFM.USE.MIGHT Use of free memory - possible UFM.USE.MUST Use of Freed Memory
Rule 6.8.2	Mandatory	LOCRET.RET Function returns address of local variable
Rule 6.8.3	Required	LOCRET.ARG Function returns address of local variable LOCRET.GLOB Function returns address of local variable
Rule 6.8.4	Advisory
Rule 6.9.1	Required	MISRA.OBJ.TYPE.IDENT Type not identical with type of other declaration
Rule 6.9.2	Advisory	MISRA.BUILTIN_NUMERIC Builtin numeric type is used
Rule 7.0.1	Required	CXX.BITOP.BOOL_OPERAND Potential logic error: Boolean expressions should not be used directly as bitwise operator arguments. Consider using logical operators instead. MISRA.LOGIC.OPERATOR.NOT_BOOL Operand of non-logical operator is effectively boolean
Rule 7.0.2	Required	PORTING.CMPSPEC.TYPE.BOOL Assignment to a 'bool' type is larger than 1 byte
Rule 7.0.3	Required	MISRA.CHAR.NOT_CHARACTER 'char' is used for non-character value
Rule 7.0.4	Required	MISRA.BITS.NOT_UNSIGNED Operand of bitwise operation is not unsigned integer MISRA.BITS.NOT_UNSIGNED.PREP Operand of bitwise operation is not unsigned integer MISRA.BITS.OPERAND Operands of bitwise operation have different underlying types MISRA.SHIFT.RANGE Right operand of shift operation is out of range - greater or equal to max bit-length of left operand, or negative
Rule 7.0.5	Required	MISRA.CAST.FLOAT_INT Cast of floating point expression to integral type MISRA.CAST.INT.SIGN Non-trivial integral expression is cast to type with different signedness MISRA.CAST.INT_FLOAT Cast of integral expression to floating point type MISRA.CONV.INT.SIGN Implicit integral conversion changes signedness
Rule 7.0.6	Required	MISRA.CHAR.OPERAND Expression of type 'char' or 'wchar_t' is used as non-character operand MISRA.ENUM.OPERAND Expression of enum type is used in arithmetic context
Rule 7.11.1	Required	MISRA.LITERAL.NULL.INT NULL used as an integer value. MISRA.LITERAL.NULL.PTR Literal zero used as the null-pointer-constant.
Rule 7.11.2	Required	MISRA.FUNC.ARRAY.PARAMS Function argument with array type decay to a pointer
Rule 7.11.3	Required	MISRA.CAST.FUNC_PTR.CPP Cast converts function pointer to other pointer type MISRA.CAST.INT_TO_PTR Object with integer type or pointer to void cast to pointer type MISRA.CAST.PTR.UNRELATED Object of pointer type cast to unrelated type
Rule 8.0.1	Advisory	MISRA.DEFINE.NOPARS Macro parameter with no parentheses MISRA.EXPR.PARENS.REDUNDANT Limited dependence required for operator precedence rules in expressions MISRA.LOGIC.POSTFIX Operand in a logical 'and' or 'or' expression is not a postfix expression
Rule 8.1.1	Required
Rule 8.1.2	Advisory	AUTOSAR.LAMBDA.IMPLICIT_CAPTURE Variables shall not be implicitly captured in a lambda expression
Rule 8.2.1	Required	MISRA.CAST.PTR.VRCLASS A cast form pointer to a virtual base class to pointer to a derived class does not use 'dynamic_cast'
Rule 8.2.2	Required	MISRA.C_CAST C-style cast to non-void type MISRA.FUNC_CAST Functional notation cast different from explicit constructor call
Rule 8.2.3	Required	MISRA.CAST.CONST Cast operation removes const or volatile modifier from a pointer or reference
Rule 8.2.4	Required	MISRA.CAST.FUNC_PTR.CPP Cast converts function pointer to other pointer type
Rule 8.2.5	Required	AUTOSAR.CAST.REINTERPRET reinterpret_cast shall not be used
Rule 8.2.6	Required	MISRA.CAST.INT_TO_PTR Object with integer type or pointer to void cast to pointer type
Rule 8.2.7	Advisory	MISRA.CAST.PTR_TO_INT Cast between a pointer and an integral type
Rule 8.2.8	Required
Rule 8.2.9	Required
Rule 8.2.10	Required	MISRA.FUNC.RECUR Recursive function
Rule 8.2.11	Required
Rule 8.3.1	Advisory	MISRA.UMINUS.UNSIGNED Operand of unary minus is unsigned
Rule 8.3.2	Advisory
Rule 8.7.1	Required	MISRA.PTR.ARITH Pointer is used in arithmetic or array index expression MISRA.PTR.ARITH.NOT_SAME.2008 A pointer resulting from arithmetic on a pointer operand shall address an element of the same array as that pointer operand
Rule 8.7.2	Required	MISRA.PTR.SUB Pointer subtraction shall only be applied if pointing to same array MISRA.PTR.SUB.OBJECT Pointer subtraction shall only be applied if pointing to same object
Rule 8.9.1	Required	MISRA.PTR.CMP.2008 Pointer comparison using comparison operators shall only be applied if pointing to same array and within the range MISRA.PTR.CMP.OBJECT.2008 Pointer comparison using comparison operators shall only be applied if pointing to same object and within the range
Rule 8.14.1	Advisory	MISRA.LOGIC.SIDEEFF Right operand in a logical 'and' or 'or' expression contains side effects
Rule 8.18.1	Mandatory	MISRA.ASSIGN.OVERLAP Object is assigned to an overlapping object
Rule 8.18.2	Advisory	MISRA.ASSIGN.COND Assignment operator is used in a condition MISRA.ASSIGN.SUBEXPR Assignment operator is used in a sub-expression outside a condition
Rule 8.19.1	Advisory	MISRA.COMMA Comma operator is used
Rule 8.20.1	Advisory	MISRA.COMP.WRAPAROUND Wrap-around in a condition MISRA.ELIF.WRAPAROUND Wrap-around in #elif directive MISRA.IF.WRAPAROUND Wrap-around in #if directive NUM.OVERFLOW.DF Possible numeric overflow or wraparound
Rule 9.2.1	Required
Rule 9.3.1	Required	MISRA.IF.NO_COMPOUND The body of if/else statement is not a compound statement MISRA.STMT.NO_COMPOUND The body of switch, while, do/while or for statement is not a compound statement
Rule 9.4.1	Required	MISRA.IF.NO_ELSE A chain of if/else-if statements is not terminated with else or is terminated with an empty else clause
Rule 9.4.2	Required	MISRA.SWITCH.BOOL Condition of switch statement is boolean expression MISRA.SWITCH.LABEL A switch label belongs to nested compound statement inside switch body MISRA.SWITCH.NOT_WELL_FORMED Switch statement is not well-formed MISRA.SWITCH.NO_CASE No case-clause in a switch statement
Rule 9.5.1	Advisory	MISRA.FOR.COND.CHANGE For loop counter is modified within the loop condition section MISRA.FOR.COUNTER.FLT For loop counter has a floating point type MISRA.FOR.COUNTER.MANY Many counters in a for loop MISRA.FOR.INCR For loop counter is modified in an inappropriate way MISRA.FOR.STMT.CHANGE For loop counter is modified within the loop statement
Rule 9.5.2	Required
Rule 9.6.1	Advisory	AUTOSAR.GOTO The goto statement shall not be used
Rule 9.6.2	Required	MISRA.GOTO.NESTED Goto to a label declared in a nested compound statement
Rule 9.6.3	Required	MISRA.GOTO.AFTER.LABEL Unconstrained use of goto
Rule 9.6.4	Required
Rule 9.6.5	Required	FUNCRET.GEN Non-void function does not return value RETVOID.GEN Non-void function returns void value
Rule 10.0.1	Advisory	MISRA.DECL.MANY_DCLS More than one declarator in one declaration
Rule 10.1.1	Advisory	MISRA.CONST.RET.NON_CONST Constant member function returns non-const pointer to member variable MISRA.PPARAM.NEEDS.CONST Pointer parameter is not used to modify the addressed object but is not declared as a pointer to const MISRA.RET.REF.NON_CONST Member function returns non-const handle to member variable
Rule 10.1.2	Required	CERT.EXPR.VOLATILE.ADDR.PARAM Do not pass a volatile object to a function through a nonvolatile pointer
Rule 10.2.1	Required
Rule 10.2.2	Advisory
Rule 10.2.3	Required
Rule 10.3.1	Advisory	MISRA.NAMESPACE.UNMD Unnamed namespace in header file
Rule 10.4.1	Required	AUTOSAR.ASM The asm declaration shall not be used
Rule 11.3.1	Advisory	AUTOSAR.ARRAY.CSTYLE C-style arrays shall not be used
Rule 11.3.2	Advisory	MISRA.PTR.TO_PTR_TO_PTR Pointer declaration has more than two levels of indirection
Rule 11.6.1	Advisory
Rule 11.6.2	Mandatory	UNINIT.CTOR.MIGHT Uninitialized Variable in Constructor - possible UNINIT.CTOR.MUST Uninitialized Variable in Constructor UNINIT.HEAP.MIGHT Uninitialized Heap Use - possible UNINIT.HEAP.MUST Uninitialized Heap Use UNINIT.STACK.ARRAY.MIGHT Uninitialized Array - possible UNINIT.STACK.ARRAY.MUST Uninitialized Array UNINIT.STACK.ARRAY.PARTIAL.MUST Partially Uninitialized Array UNINIT.STACK.MIGHT Uninitialized Variable - possible UNINIT.STACK.MUST Uninitialized Variable
Rule 11.6.3	Required	MISRA.ENUM.IMPLICIT.VAL.NON_UNIQUE.2012 Implicit enumerator value is not unique
Rule 12.2.1	Advisory
Rule 12.2.2	Required
Rule 12.2.3	Required	MISRA.BITFIELD.SIGNED Length of a named signed bit-field is less than 2
Rule 12.3.1	Required	MISRA.UNION Union is used
Rule 13.1.1	Advisory	MISRA.DERIVE.VIRTUAL Class is derived from virtual base
Rule 13.1.2	Required	MISRA.BASE.VIRTUAL.NOTVIRTUAL Base class is used as both virtual and not virtual in inheritance hierarchy
Rule 13.3.1	Required	AUTOSAR.MEMB.VIRTUAL.SPEC Virtual function declaration shall contain exactly one of the three specifiers: (1) virtual, (2) override, (3) final.
Rule 13.3.2	Required
Rule 13.3.3	Required	MISRA.FUNC.PARAMS.IDENT Identifiers used in declaration and definition of function are not identical
Rule 13.3.4	Required	AUTOSAR.VIRTUAL.PTR_COMPARE A pointer to member virtual function shall only be tested for equality with null-pointer-constant
Rule 14.1.1	Advisory
Rule 15.0.1	Required
Rule 15.0.2	Advisory
Rule 15.1.1	Required	MISRA.CTOR.DYNAMIC Object's dynamic type is used from the body of its constructor MISRA.DTOR.DYNAMIC Object's dynamic type is used from the body of its destructor
Rule 15.1.2	Advisory	MISRA.CTOR.BASE Constructor does not explicitly call constructor of its base class
Rule 15.1.3	Required	MISRA.CTOR.NOT_EXPLICIT Constructor with one argument of built-in type is not declared 'explicit'
Rule 15.1.4	Advisory
Rule 15.1.5	Required
Rule 16.5.1	Required
Rule 16.5.2	Required	MISRA.UN_OP.OVERLOAD Unary & operator is overloaded
Rule 16.6.1	Advisory
Rule 17.8.1	Required	MISRA.FUNC.SPEC.OVRLD Viable function set for a function call contains an overloaded template and its explicit specialization
Rule 18.1.1	Required	MISRA.THROW.PTR Exception object is a pointer
Rule 18.1.2	Required	MISRA.THROW.EMPTY Empty throw expression does not belong to a catch block
Rule 18.3.1	Advisory	MISRA.CATCH.ALL No ellipsis exception handler in a try-catch block
Rule 18.3.2	Required	MISRA.CATCH.BY_VALUE Exception object of class type is caught by value
Rule 18.3.3	Required	MISRA.CTOR.TRY.NON_STATIC Function try/catch block of constructor or destructor references non-static members
Rule 18.4.1	Required
Rule 18.5.1	Advisory	AUTOSAR.EXCPT.NOEXCPT_THROW If a function is declared to be noexcept, noexcept(true) or noexcept(<true condition>), then it shall not exit with an exception
Rule 18.5.2	Advisory	MISRA.TERMINATE terminate() function is called explicitly
Rule 19.0.1	Required	MISRA.USE.UNKNOWNDIR Unknown preprocessor directive is used
Rule 19.0.2	Required	MISRA.DEFINE.FUNC Function-like macro definition
Rule 19.0.3	Advisory	MISRA.INCL.INSIDE Include directive preceded by a preprocessor output token
Rule 19.0.4	Advisory
Rule 19.1.1	Required	MISRA.ELIF.DEFINED Incorrect 'defined' usage in #elif directive MISRA.IF.DEFINED Incorrect 'defined' usage in #if directive
Rule 19.1.2	Required	MISRA.ELIF.OTHERFILE #elif in an improper file MISRA.ELSE.OTHERFILE #else in an improper file MISRA.ENDIF.OTHERFILE #endif in an improper file
Rule 19.1.3	Required	MISRA.ELIF.UNDEF Undefined macros in #elif directive MISRA.IF.UNDEF Undefined macros in #if directive
Rule 19.2.1	Required	MISRA.INCGUARD Include guard is not provided
Rule 19.2.2	Required	MISRA.INCL.BAD Non-standard include directive
Rule 19.2.3	Required	MISRA.INCL.SYMS Non-standard characters in header file names
Rule 19.3.1	Advisory	MISRA.DEFINE.SHARP # or ## operator in a macro definition
Rule 19.3.2	Required	MISRA.DEFINE.SHARP.ORDER.2012 Unspecified order of evaluation of multiple '#' or '##'
Rule 19.3.3	Required	MISRA.DEFINE.SHARP.REPLACE.2012 A macro parameter used as an operand to the '#' or '##' operators, which is itself subject to further macro replacement, shall only be used as an operand to these operators
Rule 19.3.4	Required	MISRA.DEFINE.NOPARS Macro parameter with no parentheses
Rule 19.3.5	Required	MISRA.EXPANSION.DIRECTIVE Directive-like tokens within a macro argument
Rule 19.6.1	Advisory	MISRA.PRAGMA.ASM Incorrect assembler instruction PORTING.PRAGMA.ALIGN #pragma align usage PORTING.PRAGMA.PACK #pragma pack usage
Rule 21.2.1	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.ATOI Use of 'atof', 'atoi' or 'atol' from library stdlib.h
Rule 21.2.2	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.CSTRING Function from 'cstring' library is used
Rule 21.2.3	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.SYSTEM.2012_AMD2 Use of 'system' from library stdlib.h
Rule 21.2.4	Required
Rule 21.6.1	Advisory	MISRA.STDLIB.MEMORY Use of dynamic heap memory allocation
Rule 21.6.2	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.MEMORY Use of dynamic heap memory allocation
Rule 21.6.3	Required
Rule 21.6.4	Required	AUTOSAR.OP.DELETE.MISSING_VERSION If a project has sized or unsized version of operator "delete" globally defined, then both sized and unsized versions shall be defined
Rule 21.6.5	Required	CERT.EXPR.DELETE_PTR.INCOMPLETE_TYPE Do not delete a pointer to an incomplete type
Rule 21.10.1	Required	MISRA.FUNC.VARARG Function with variable number of arguments
Rule 21.10.2	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.LONGJMP Use of setjmp macro or longjmp function
Rule 21.10.3	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.SIGNAL Use of the signal handling facilities of signal.h
Rule 22.3.1	Required
Rule 22.4.1	Required
Rule 23.11.1	Advisory
Rule 24.5.1	Required
Rule 24.5.2	Required
Rule 25.5.1	Required	AUTOSAR.SETLOCALE The library <clocale> (locale.h) and the setlocale function shall not be used
Rule 25.5.2	Mandatory	CXX.STDLIB.ILLEGAL_WRITE The pointers returned by the Standard Library functions localeconv, getenv, setlocale or, strerror shall only be used as if they have pointer to const-qualified type
Rule 25.5.3	Mandatory	CXX.STDLIB.ILLEGAL_REUSE The pointer returned by the Standard Library functions asctime and similar shall not be used following a subsequent call to the same function
Rule 26.3.1	Advisory	AUTOSAR.VECTOR.BOOL The std::vector<bool> specialization shall not be used
Rule 28.3.1	Required
Rule 28.6.1	Required	AUTOSAR.STDLIB.MOVE.CONST The std::move shall not be used on objects declared const or const&
Rule 28.6.2	Required	AUTOSAR.FORWARD Forwarding values to other functions shall be done via: (1) std::move if the value is an rvalue reference, (2) std::forward if the value is forwarding reference
Rule 28.6.3	Required
Rule 28.6.4	Required
Rule 30.0.1	Required	MISRA.STDLIB.STDIO Use of input/output library stdio.h in production code
Rule 30.0.2	Required

Support Summary

Total supported: 125

Total of not statically verifiable rules: 4

Total of statically verifiable rules not supported: 50

MISRA C++ coverage: 70% (excludes rules that are not statically verifiable)

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