Floating-point equality comparison

Reports floating-point values that are being compared using the == or != operator.

Floating-point values are inherently inaccurate, and comparing them for exact equality is seldom the desired semantics.

This inspection ignores comparisons with zero and infinity literals.

Example:

  void m(double d1, double d2) {
    if (d1 == d2) {}
  }

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FloatingPointEquality

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Last modified: 18 June 2024