Code Check

Introduction to clang-tidy

clang-tidy is a static analyzer for C and C++.

It has many checks and can help us find some potential bugs.

VG151 code quality checks

Originally, I wrote a python script to perform the checks. It works quite good, but it fails for complicated cases.

Therefore, I spent some time writing a plugin for clang-tidy, and it works very well. It enables me to get AST of the code and I can match some specific code and traverse the tree.

Run checks on your program

You can log into manuel’s server and we have already installed clang-tidy and my plugin for you.

Simply type:

clang-tidy --load=/usr/local/lib/libcodequality.so # add your source code

Checks we enabled

The .clang-tidy file we enabled is included in the drone branch, materials repository.

Run clang-tidy with our checks locally

If you want to perform the checks locally, you can use the prebuilt plugin on the Release page.

Contribution

Go to Github repository, you can open PRs and issues.