xml-reports are missing notes

[Epps]

Hello, I noticed that we don't see all finds from CPPCHeck in our CI because all lines of the category "note" don't appear in the XML file.

Is there a way to force all results to be written to the XML file?

[Daniel Marjamäki]

I don't directly see how to reproduce it. What version do you use?

The notes should be reported as <location> elements as below:

Example code:

void foo(int x) {
    a = 10/x;
    if (!x) {}
}

textual output:

1.c:2:8: warning: Either the condition '!x' is redundant or there is division by zero at line 2. [zerodivcond]
 a = 10/x;
       ^
1.c:3:6: note: Assuming that condition '!x' is not redundant
 if (!x) {}
     ^
1.c:2:8: note: Division by zero
 a = 10/x;
       ^

xml output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<results version="2">
    <cppcheck version="2.12 dev"/>
    <errors>
        <error id="zerodivcond" severity="warning" msg="Either the condition &apos;!x&apos; is redundant or there is division by zero at line 2." verbose="Either the condition &apos;!x&apos; is redundant or there is division by zero at line 2." cwe="369" file0="1.c">
            <location file="1.c" line="2" column="8" info="Division by zero"/>
            <location file="1.c" line="3" column="6" info="Assuming that condition &apos;!x&apos; is not redundant"/>
        </error>
    </errors>
</results>

[Epps]

That's right, the note data is available as location.
Sorry, I had misunderstood the XML struture.
Thanks for looking over it and sorry again.

[Yashraj Vernekar]

hey can you guys please tell me the command on how to get this info parameter in the location
<location file="1.c" line="2" column="8" info="Division by zero">
<location file="1.c" line="3" column="6" info="Assuming that condition '!x' is not redundant">
</location></location>

[Daniel Marjamäki]

$ cat 1.c
void foo(int x) {
    a = 10/x;
    if (!x) {}
}
$ ./cppcheck --enable=warning --xml -q 1.c
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<results version="2">
    <cppcheck version="2.17 dev"/>
    <errors>
        <error id="zerodivcond" severity="warning" msg="Either the condition &apos;!x&apos; is redundant or there is division by zero at line 2." verbose="Either the condition &apos;!x&apos; is redundant or there is division by zero at line 2." cwe="369" file0="1.c">
            <location file="1.c" line="2" column="11" info="Division by zero"/>
            <location file="1.c" line="3" column="9" info="Assuming that condition &apos;!x&apos; is not redundant"/>
        </error>
    </errors>
</results>