False positive: bit and misinterpreted as address-of operator

[Matěj Plch]

Cppcheck emits warning on the following code:

int bit_and()
{
  return int{0b00010101} & 0b00000111;
}

[test.cpp:3]: (portability) Returning an address value in a function with integer (int/long/etc) return type is not portable across different platforms and compilers. For example in 32-bit Windows and Linux they are same width, but in 64-bit Windows and Linux they are of different width. In worst case you end up casting 64-bit address down to 32-bit integer. The safe way is to always return an integer.

It seems to be triggered by the braces in int{0b00010101}, it does not warn when using parentheses int(0b00010101).

[CHR]

Thanks for reporting, ticket is here: https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/11572