Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience.
Accept
to the top
close form

Fill out the form in 2 simple steps below:

Your contact information:

Step 1
Congratulations! This is your promo code!

Desired license type:

Step 2
Team license
Enterprise license
** By clicking this button you agree to our Privacy Policy statement
close form
Request our prices
New License
License Renewal
--Select currency--
USD
EUR
* By clicking this button you agree to our Privacy Policy statement

close form
Free PVS‑Studio license for Microsoft MVP specialists
* By clicking this button you agree to our Privacy Policy statement

close form
To get the licence for your open-source project, please fill out this form
* By clicking this button you agree to our Privacy Policy statement

close form
I am interested to try it on the platforms:
* By clicking this button you agree to our Privacy Policy statement

close form
check circle
Message submitted.

Your message has been sent. We will email you at


If you do not see the email in your inbox, please check if it is filtered to one of the following folders:

  • Promotion
  • Updates
  • Spam

Webinar: Evaluation - 05.12

>
>
>
V705. It is possible that 'else' block …
menu mobile close menu
Analyzer diagnostics
General Analysis (C++)
General Analysis (C#)
General Analysis (Java)
Micro-Optimizations (C++)
Diagnosis of 64-bit errors (Viva64, C++)
Customer specific requests (C++)
MISRA errors
AUTOSAR errors
OWASP errors (C++)
OWASP errors (C#)
Problems related to code analyzer
Additional information
toggle menu Contents

V705. It is possible that 'else' block was forgotten or commented out, thus altering the program's operation logics.

Sep 08 2014

This diagnostic is similar to V628 but deals with the else branch of the if operator. The analyzer has detected a suspicious code fragment which may be a forgotten or incorrectly commented else block.

This issue is best explained on examples.

if (!x)
  t = x;
else

z = t;

In this case, code formatting doesn't meet its logic: the z = t expression will execute only if (x == 0), which is hardly what the programmer wanted. A similar situation may occur when a code fragment is not commented properly:

if (!x)
  t = x;
else
  //t = -1;
z = t;

In this case, we either need to fix the formatting by turning it into something more readable or fix the logic error by adding a missing branch of the if operator.

However, there are cases when it's difficult to figure out if such code is incorrect or it's just stylization. The analyzer tries to reduce the number of false positives related to stylization through heuristic analysis. For example, the following code won't trigger the diagnostic rule:

if (x == 1)
  t = 42;
else
 
if (x == 2)
  t = 84;
else

#ifdef __extended__x
if (x == 3)
  t = 741;
else
#endif

  t = 0;

This diagnostic is classified as:

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V705 diagnostic.