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From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitter.spiros@gmail.com, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: add cppcheck target
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:22:25 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213092225.15299-1-judge.packham@gmail.com> (raw)

Add cppcheck target to Makefile. Cppcheck is a static
analysis tool for C/C++ code. Cppcheck primarily detects
the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect.
It is an useful target for doing QA analysis.

Based-on-patch-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
---
I had been playing with cppcheck for some other projects and happened to
notice [1] in the archives. This is my attempt to resolve the feedback
that Junio made at the time.

In terms of errors that are actually reported there are only a few

$ make cppcheck
cppcheck --force --quiet --inline-suppr  .
[compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h:4093]: (error) Possible null pointer dereference: sp
[compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h:4106]: (error) Possible null pointer dereference: sp
[compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c:551]: (error) Expression '*(&p.mycache)=TlsAlloc(),TLS_OUT_OF_INDEXES==*(&p.mycache)' depends on order of evaluation of side effects
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:3086]: (error) Memory leak: sbcset
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:3634]: (error) Memory leak: sbcset
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:3086]: (error) Memory leak: mbcset
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:3634]: (error) Memory leak: mbcset
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:2802]: (error) Uninitialized variable: table_size
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:2805]: (error) Uninitialized variable: table_size
[compat/regex/regcomp.c:532]: (error) Memory leak: fastmap
[t/t4051/appended1.c:3]: (error) Invalid number of character '{' when these macros are defined: ''.
[t/t4051/appended2.c:35]: (error) Invalid number of character '{' when these macros are defined: ''.

The last 2 are just false positives from test data. I haven't looked
into any of the others.

I've also provisioned for enabling extra checks by passing CPPCHECK_ADD
in the make invocation.

$ make cppcheck CPPCHECK_ADD=--enable=all
... lots of output
    
[1] - http://public-inbox.org/git/1390993371-2431-1-git-send-email-gitter.spiros@gmail.com/#t

 Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f53fcc90d..8b5976d88 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2635,3 +2635,7 @@ cover_db: coverage-report
 cover_db_html: cover_db
 	cover -report html -outputdir cover_db_html cover_db
 
+.PHONY: cppcheck
+
+cppcheck:
+	cppcheck --force --quiet --inline-suppr $(CPPCHECK_ADD) .
-- 
2.11.0.24.ge6920cf


             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-13  9:22 Chris Packham [this message]
2016-12-13  9:32 ` [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: add cppcheck target Chris Packham
2016-12-13  9:37   ` stefan.naewe
2016-12-13 12:15 ` Jeff King
2016-12-13 12:28   ` Jeff King
2016-12-14  8:23     ` Chris Packham
2016-12-14  8:33   ` Chris Packham
2016-12-14 11:18     ` Jeff King
2016-12-14  9:27 ` [RFC/PATCHv2] " Chris Packham
2016-12-14 11:24   ` Jeff King
2016-12-14 14:46     ` Jeff King
2016-12-15 23:22     ` [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: suppress some cppcheck false-positives Chris Packham
2016-12-16 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-16 22:16         ` Jeff King
     [not found]     ` <6ABA4AA4-BD5C-4178-BB3B-91CA045EA2AD@gmail.com>
2016-12-17  7:31       ` [RFC/PATCHv2] Makefile: add cppcheck target Chris Packham

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