cppcheck support for C++ Core Guidelines

[John Hagen]

Bjarne Stroustrup recently gave a talk at cppcon 2015 about a new initiative that has been begun titled the C++ Core Guidelines.

https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/09/bjarne-stroustrup-announces-cpp-core-guidelines

Will it be a goal of cppcheck to adopt and check for these rules, or should we except to rely on a separate tool to be used in parallel with cppcheck?

Microsoft has released a partial implementation of the checker for Visual Studio 2015 users: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/12/03/c-core-guidelines-checkers-available-for-vs-2015-update-1.aspx

Thanks for all of the work done on cppcheck.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

Cppcheck is not good at stylistic rules. The Cppcheck data does not have the fidelity required to detect various violations. So as far as I know, it wouldn't be possible to add cppcheck checkers for all isocpp rules.

Stylistic rules that rejects some common coding practices can't be added in a builtin checker - that is against Cppcheck philosophy. However they can be implemented in a Cppcheck addon.

I have no goal to add a isocpp addon. But if anybody wants to work on it feel free to do it - I would be happy to add that addon.

There might be some good rule in the isocpp that could be added as a builtin checker. If it detects bugs and does not cause false positives for valid code. If you see such rule let us know.