Declaration hides parameter¶

ID: cpp/declaration-hides-parameterKind: problemSecurity severity: Severity: recommendationPrecision: very-highTags:   - maintainability   - readabilityQuery suites:   - cpp-security-and-quality.qls

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This rule finds declarations of local variables that hide parameters of the surrounding function. Such declarations create variables with the same name but different scopes. This makes it hard to understand which variable is actually being used in an expression.

voidf(inti){for(inti=0;i<10;++i){//the loop variable hides the parameter to f()...}}