Crash when parsing a class with a static template method

[Catalin Popescu]

I use cppcheck version 2.6.

Below is a class that has a static template method (create()):

// CAbc.h
#pragma once
class CAbc
{

public:

    template<class D>
    static CAbc *create()
    {
        CAbc *pCtrl = new CAbc();
        return pCtrl;
    }

    ~CAbc();

private:
    CAbc();
};

CAbc::CAbc()
{
}

CAbc::~CAbc()
{
}

The 'create()' method is used in another source file:

// Caller.cpp
#include "CAbc.h"

void test()
{
    CAbc * p = CAbc::create<int>();
}

I use the following command:

cppcheck -URM -URM_OLD -URM_OLD_DELEGATES --enable=all --inconclusive --includes-file=CppCheck-IncludePaths.cfg  --force --xml --xml-version=2 --platform=win64  .. 2> result.xml

Cppcheck exits before finishing the 'result.xml', leaving it incomplete.
If I run cppcheck in debug mode, a debug assertion fails in TemplateSimplifier::expandTemplate():

void TemplateSimplifier::expandTemplate(
    const TokenAndName &templateDeclaration,
    const TokenAndName &templateInstantiation,
    const std::vector<const Token *> &typeParametersInDeclaration,
    const std::string &newName,
    bool copy)
{
//...........  
                // link() newly tokens manually
            else if (copy) {
                if (tok3->str() == "{") {
                    brackets.push(mTokenList.back());
                } else if (tok3->str() == "(") {
                    brackets.push(mTokenList.back());
                } else if (tok3->str() == "[") {
                    brackets.push(mTokenList.back());
                } else if (tok3->str() == "}") {
                    assert(brackets.empty() == false); // HERE, THE ASSERTION FAILS
                    assert(brackets.top()->str() == "{");
                    Token::createMutualLinks(brackets.top(), mTokenList.back());
                    //...............
                    }

I found these temporary solutions to avoid the crash:
1. add a semicolon after the body of the 'create()' method
2. move the 'create()' method implementation outside of the class

[CHR]

Thanks for reporting, ticket is here: https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/10651