Possible good tests

[Michael Ségura]

Hi,
Maybe you don't know this tool : Google's cppclean.
It has good test cppcheck doesn't have :

• Find global/static data that are potential problems when using threads
• Unnecessary forward class declarations
• Unnecessary function declarations
• Find unnecessary header files #included :
• No direct reference to anything in the header
• Header is unnecessary if classes were forward declared instead
• Source files that reference headers not directly #included, ie, files that rely on a transitive #include from another header
• Unused members (private, protected, & public) methods and data

[Daniel Marjamäki]

I did not know about cppclean.

please write suggestions in our issue tracker:
http://trac.cppcheck.net/

Please write 1 issue for each test.

I am not against the tests you suggest but if these tests are already implemented in cppclean then people could use that tool also.

I don't think the tests for header files are possible currently to add in cppcheck. That requires that these tests runs during the preprocessing.