# V601. Suspicious implicit type casting.

The analyzer has detected an odd implicit type conversion. Such a type conversion might signal an error or carelessly written code.

Let's consider the first example.

    std::string str;
    bool bstr;
    ...
    str = true;

Any programmer will be surprised on seeing an assignment of the 'true' value to a variable of the 'std::string' type. But this construct is quite permissible and working. The programmer just made a mistake here and wrote a wrong variable.

This is the correct code:

    std::string str;
    bool bstr;
    ...
    bstr = true;

Consider the second example:

    bool Ret(int *p)
    {
      if (!p)
        return "p1";
      ...
    }

The string literal "p1" turns into the 'true' variable and is returned from the function. It is a very odd code.

We cannot give you general recommendations on fixing such code, since every case must be considered individually.

This diagnostic is classified as:

CWE-704 CERT-INT36-C

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V601 diagnostic.