Re: PSA: If you are C/C++ developer, use cppcheck

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On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:36:26 AM Dan Williams wrote:
> > In the last few days, I have been running cppcheck on quite a few programs
> > including systemd, transmission, libvirt,  ndjbdns etc and cppcheck has
> > found real and potential bugs (null pointer dereferences, uninitialized
> > variables, memory & resource leaks etc) in each of them.  I have reported
> > the ones I found and several developers have already fixed the issues.   A
> > couple of examples
> 
> How are you running it to get it to print the warnings?  I've tried
> --enable=warning, but all I get are includes errors (like <errno.h>)
> that aren't useful and are wrong AFAICT.

I wrote a system a couple years ago to make cppcheck useful:

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/swa/cwe/index.html

You need to collect defines, includes, and the files compiled. Then feed then to 
it. The page I listed above has helper scripts.

-Steve
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