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Questions tagged [clang-tidy]
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Why isn't CLion checking for MISRA?
I want to run the MISRA checks on my code and when I click "Inspect Code" it shows only Clang-Tidy even though I have checked the MISRA setting in the Inspections menu.
Inspections menu
And this are the results of the Analysis.
Analysis results
No…
I4mbut4mI
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How can I use clang tidy without compile_commands.json in Windows (Powershell)?
I am not using CMake and I could not figure out how to build the compile_commands.json file separately; so, I have created a custom script that runs clang tidy on files. In Linux, the command works without issues:
clang-tidy -header-filter=.*…
Gasim
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Is Clang-Tidy check "member is const qualified" too strict?
Clang-tidy check cppcoreguidelines-avoid-const-or-ref-data-members warns about const qualified members, referring to C++ Core Guidelines C.12 Don’t make data members const or references in a copyable or movable type,…
Jens
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Clang tidy does not detect missing virtual destructor
Consider following MWE:
reference.cpp:
#include
class A {
public:
virtual void foo() = 0;
};
class B : public A {
public:
void foo() override {
std::cout << "test";
}
};
If I run clang-tidy…
Roman
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How to avoid Clang-Tidy warning when using QLibrary::resolve?
QLibrary documentation suggests casting the QFunctionPointer returned to a specific function pointer. However, following code results in a Clang-Tidy warning "Do not use C-style cast to convert between unrelated types":
using FooFactory = Foo*…
Jens
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Creating an AST Matcher using hasAnyArgument
I am trying to build a matcher which will find the usage of a forbidden enum value, e.g.
foo(enumDeprecated);
e.g.:
static internal::Matcher buildSimpleFunctionArgumentMatcher(
const std::string argumentName,
const std::string binding)…
Daniel Shimshoni
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Include errors with clang-tidy, CMake, Ninja, MinGW and Visual Studio on Windows
When compiling the following Hello World project in Visual Studio with MinGW toolchain using Ninja, iostream cannot be found by clang-tidy.
CMakeLists.txt:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
project(my_project)
add_executable(my_project…
OLEGSHA
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use clang-query to match specified string
how should I use clang-query to match specified string
souece code:
int main()
{
__asm__ __volatile__("pause");
}
I want to substituted "yield" for "pause"
what I have tried
in clang-query, I can only match the stringLiteral and I cant match…
Davi
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How to get Visual Studio use a .clang-tidy configuration file when invoking clang-tidy?
Visual Studio (Desktop) has a clang-tidy integration. you can make VS invoke clang-tidy with a list of checks.
however, I could not find a way to make it use an existing .clang-tidy configuration file.
The documentation hints that it is…
Elad Maimoni
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clang tidy emits errors about exceptions being disabled when the are enabled
I enabled clang-tidy integration to a CMake project like so:
set(CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY
clang-tidy;
-header-filter=.;
--config-file=${MY_CLANG_TIDY_CONFIG_PATH};
)
In the .clang-tidy config file, there are rules for checking naming conventions…
Elad Maimoni
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Clang-tidy problem encountered with multiple architectures
I'm working on creating a custom clang-tidy checker for a large codebase. To run my clang-tidy checker, I need to generate a compile_commands.json database for all files. The problem I'm facing is that this is a multi architecture project, so most…
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Using clang-tidy with compile-commands.json to parse multiple files
I am having trouble getting clang-tidy to read my compilation-database.
If I try:
clang-tidy --config-file ./.clang-tidy -checks=* -p ./target
or
clang-tidy --config-file ./.clang-tidy -checks=* -p ./target/compile-commands.json
I get
Error: no…
Bruce Adams
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how to get type from `cxxNewExpr` in `clang-tidy`
I'm trying to do a quick rewrite of our codebase to replace all instances of new T(...) with New(...) (a custom function), so I can do some local measurements.
I think clang-tidy is the way to go here, so I've made a small clang tidy script,…
CoffeeTableEspresso
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clang-tidy not applying naming
I'm trying to use clang-tidy on Windows from MSVC (Clang 13.0.1 for MSVC 2022 amd). The renaming is applied to the header file, but not fully to the cpp file.
.clang-tidy
Checks: '-*,readability-identifier-naming'
CheckOptions:
- { key:…
David Benson
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clang-tooling: replacing out parameter with a return value
I'm writing a clang tool that would roughly do the following:
Before:
encode(in, out);
After:
out = encode(in);
The problem is I would like to remove the unnecessary temporary variables too.
At the very least I'd like:
std::string…
Denis Yaroshevskiy
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