Setting a sub-option to clang-tidy

Question

I am using clang-tidy from cmdline clang-tidy readability-implicit-bool-conversion ... <other_options>". This clang-tidy option has the sub-option AllowPointerConditions, in order for clang-tidy to allow me to use if (!p) whithot warnings.

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/readability-implicit-bool-conversion.html

How can I enable this from the command line? thanks

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '18 at 11:30

Use the -config option and put the additional options into CheckOptions.

clang-tidy -config="{Checks: '-*,readability-implicit-bool-conversion', 
  CheckOptions: [{key: readability-implicit-bool-conversion.AllowPointerConditions, value: 1} ]}" 
  test.cpp -- -std=c++11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '22 at 16:20

If you are using a .clang-tidy yaml configuration file this is how you set check options

FormatStyle: file
Checks: >
  # all enabled or disabled checks ...
CheckOptions:
  - key: readability-implicit-bool-conversion.AllowPointerConditions
    value: 1
  - key: readability-function-cognitive-complexity.Threshold
    value: 10
  - key: readability-function-cognitive-complexity.IgnoreMacros
    value: true

Setting a sub-option to clang-tidy

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