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V549. The 'first' argument of 'Foo' fun…
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V549. The 'first' argument of 'Foo' function is equal to the 'second' argument.

Jun 01 2012

The analyzer detected a potential error in the program: coincidence of two actual arguments of a function. Passing the same value as two arguments is a normal thing for many functions. But if you deal with such functions as memmove, memcpy, strstr and strncmp, you must check the code.

Here is a sample from a real application:

#define str_cmp(s1, s2)  wcscmp(s1, s2)
...
v = abs(str_cmp(a->tdata, a->tdata));

The misprint here causes the wcscmp function to perform comparison of a string from itself. This is the correct code:

v = abs(str_cmp(a->tdata, b->tdata));

The analyzer generates the warning if the following functions are being handled: memcpy, memmove, memcmp, _memicmp, strstr, strspn, strtok, strcmp, strncmp, wcscmp, _stricmp, wcsncmp, etc. If you found a similar error that analyzer fails to diagnose, please tell us the name of the function that must not take same values as the first and second arguments.

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You can look at examples of errors detected by the V549 diagnostic.