Pre-processor symbol when cppcheck is active

[Richard Smith]

I'd like to detect in the source code when cppcheck is active. Does the cppcheck pre-processor create any symbols that indicate its processing the source code?

[Daniel Marjamäki]

you mean that we would pre-define __cppcheck__ or something like that. No Cppcheck does not do that currently.

[Richard Smith]

Ok. Thank you for the response.

Yes, Something like __cppcheck__. Looking for some sort of indication that it is cppcheck processing the file and not the compiler. I would use it to deal with wanting to create some alternate versions of macros that are from a library outside of the code getting checked.

[CHR]

You could add a define to your cppcheck invocation with -D__cppcheck__.