Constant condition

Reports conditions that are always true or false and expressions whose value is statically proven to be constant.

Example:

  void process(State current) {
    current = State::Started;

    if (current == State::Stopped) {
        //code
    }
    //code
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ConstantConditionsOC

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | C/C++ | Data Flow Analysis

Inspection ID: ConstantConditionsOC

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ConstantConditionsOC

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

CLion 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	CLion, 2025.2

Last modified: 18 September 2025