`A5-16-1`: Ternary operator not used as a sub expression

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by locating the implementation and tests for rule A5-16-1, then reproduce the reported plain ternary example from the issue. Done means the example no longer triggers the rule while the intended A5-16-1 cases remain covered by tests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR user-report
Affected rules
  • A5-16-1
Description

CodeQL triggers A5-16-1 on a plain ternary expression.

Example
const auto smallestSet = (setA.size() < setB.size() ? setA : setB);
Dominant language
CodeQL
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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