This diagnostic rule is based on the software development guidelines developed by MISRA (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association).
The analyzer has detected implicit removal of constness of a string literal. Since any attempt to change a string literal leads to undefined behavior, it should be assigned only to objects of type pointer to const-qualified char.
This rule also applies to wide string literals.
Here is an example of code that will trigger this warning:
char* Foo(void)
{
return "Hello, world!";
}A modified string literal also causes the analyzer to issue the warning:
"first"[1] = 'c';This diagnostic is classified as:
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