REDUN.EQ
A redundant operation is one that does not have any effect, such as
- an assignment of a variable to itself
- use of an expression that will be evaluated to a constant such as a/a
- use of an expression that can be reduced to one operand such as a & a
Even if this is not an error on its own, it may indicate a larger error in the code. A REDUN.EQ warning is reported for a suspicious call to equals() with the same object on both sides. Normally, equals() returns true to the same objects.
Example 1
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public int test() {
String s = "String";
if (s.equals(s)) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
REDUN.EQ is reported for line 11: Suspicious equals() called with 's' on both sides.
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