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<th>Issue</th>
<td>
<a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/93959>93959</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Summary</th>
<td>
clang-tidy: bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion it too noisy for void* conversions
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Labels</th>
<td>
clang-tidy
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Assignees</th>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>
t-b
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</table>
<pre>
Version:
```
Debian clang version 18.1.6 (++20240518023133+1118c2e05e67-1~exp1~20240518143227.130)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin
```
CMakeLists.txt
```
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
project(test CXX)
set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
add_executable(test test.cpp)
```
test.cpp
```
#include <cstdlib>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
char** p = nullptr;
free(p);
free((void*) p);
free(static_cast<void*>(p));
}
```
Recipe:
```
cmake -B build -S .
run-clang-tidy-18 -p build -checks="-*,bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion"
```
Output:
```
Enabled checks:
bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion
clang-tidy-18 -checks=-*,bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion -p=build /home/firma/devel/test/test.cpp
/home/firma/devel/test/test.cpp:6:8: warning: multilevel pointer conversion from 'char **' to 'void *', please use explicit cast [bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion]
6 | free(p);
| ^
/home/firma/devel/test/test.cpp:8:16: warning: multilevel pointer conversion from 'char **' to 'void *', please use explicit cast [bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion]
8 | free((void*) p);
| ^
/home/firma/devel/test/test.cpp:10:27: warning: multilevel pointer conversion from 'char **' to 'void *', please use explicit cast [bugprone-multi-level-implicit-pointer-conversion]
10 | free(static_cast<void*>(p));
| ^
3 warnings generated.
```
I don't understand why I get the warning here, in addition the suggested ways to "improve" the code using a cast don't work.
</pre>
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