Possible issue with managed C++, or maybe very long typenames

[John Schmitz]

We're using cppCheck for static code analysis, and are getting a few syntaxError failures. The interesting thing is that the error is reported at a point in the middle of a very long typename defined by Windows::Foundation. Most of our library uses straight standard C++14, but one platform needs to use UWP and managed code to interface with a 3rd party SDK. This call:

                            m_asyncOperation->Completed = ref new AsyncOperationWithProgressCompletedHandler< IBuffer^, unsigned int >( [this](
                                                          IAsyncOperationWithProgress< IBuffer^, unsigned int >^ asyncOp, AsyncStatus asyncStatus )

causes this cppCheck error:

        <error id="syntaxError" severity="error" msg="syntax error" verbose="syntax error" file0="<redactedFile>.cpp">
            <location file="<redactedFile>.cpp" line="376" column="98"/>
        </error>

Note that column 98 is right in the middle of the AsyncOperationWithProgressCompletedHandler type name.
Update: While looking at another syntax error, I realized that I can't be sure about the column position within the line. How is the tool treating tabs?

[CHR]

As far as I know, cppcheck makes no claims of handling that sort of code (C#, C++/CX...?), so maybe you can skip analysis of those files?

[Daniel Marjamäki]

yes unfortunately managed c++ is outside the scope for cppcheck.

How is the tool treating tabs?

a tab is treated as a single character.