hicpp-ignored-remove-result

Ensure that the result of std::remove, std::remove_if and std::unique are not ignored according to rule 17.5.1.

The mutating algorithms std::remove, std::remove_if and both overloads of std::unique operate by swapping or moving elements of the range they are operating over. On completion, they return an iterator to the last valid element. In the majority of cases the correct behavior is to use this result as the first operand in a call to std::erase.

This check is a subset of bugprone-unused-return-value and depending on used options it can be superfluous to enable both checks.

Options

AllowCastToVoid

Controls whether casting return values to void is permitted. Default: true.