cppcheck stopped working: error: syntax error for every JSON compilation DB file

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cppcheck stopped working: error: syntax error for every JSON compilation DB file

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: gruenich

Created: 3 days ago

Updated: 1 day ago

gruenich - 3 days ago

For a couple of weeks cppcheck stopped working for me. Every JSON Compilation Database file I pass to cppcheck is rejected by a syntax error. It is always the last square bracket. The JSON files are created by CMake 4.2, 4.3, and Bear 3.1.6. Even if I try to create a trivial JSON file by hand, I get the error.

> /home/gruenich/cppcheck/build/bin/cppcheck compile_commands.json Checking compile_commands.json ... compile_commands.json:260:1: error: syntax error [syntaxError] ] ^

I tried with 2.19, 2.20 and main. Nothing works. In the past, 2.19 was working. To make things more mysterious, for main I ran ctest and all tests passed.

Any idea how to pinpoint the cause of my issue?
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CHR - 1 day ago

You could set a breakpoint on the syntax error and check what is causing it. Maybe an encoding issue?

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