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V519. The 'x' variable is assigned valu…
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V519. The 'x' variable is assigned values twice successively. Perhaps this is a mistake.

May 30 2012

The analyzer detected a potential error related to assignment of a value two times successively to the same variable while the variable itself is not used between these assignments.

Consider this sample:

A = GetA();
A = GetB();

The fact that the 'A' variable is assigned values twice might signal an error. Most probably, the code should look this way:

A = GetA();
B = GetB();

If the variable is used between assignments, the analyzer considers this code correct:

A = 1;
A = A + 1;
A = Foo(A);

Let's see how such an error may look in practice. The following sample is taken from a real application where a user class CSize is implemented:

class CSize : public SIZE
{
  ...
  CSize(POINT pt) { cx = pt.x;  cx = pt.y; }

The correct version is the following:

CSize(POINT pt) { cx = pt.x;  cy = pt.y; }

Let's study one more example. The second line was written for the purpose of debugging or checking how text of a different color would look. And it seems that the programmer forgot to remove the second line then:

m_clrSample = GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOWTEXT);
m_clrSample = RGB(60,0,0);

Sometimes the analyzer generates false alarms when writing into variables is used for the purpose of debugging. Here is an example of such code:

status = Foo1();
status = Foo2();

In this case, we may suppress false alarms using the "//-V519" comment. We may also remove meaningless assignments from the code. And the last thing. Perhaps this code is still incorrect, so we have to check the value of the 'status' variable.

This diagnostic is classified as:

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V519 diagnostic.