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Cppcheck-1.74

Cppcheck-1.74 has been released

General changes:
- Improved CWE mapping of messages
- Git pre-commit hook checks only added or modified files

Checking improvements:
- Replaced simplification of enums by keeping and parsing them in the SymbolDatabase
- Added support to Library for specifying the parameter used by allocating/deallocating functions
- Improved support for integers defined in Libraries
- Improved accuracy of ValueType analysis
- Improved accuracy of VarID assignment, especially when dealing with structs and unions
- Improved performance of VarID assignment, checking for struct member usage, buffer overrun checking and several simplifications
- Added support for lots functions to windows.cfg and posix.cfg
- Better support for operator overloads
- Detect buffer overflows when %c is used with a width
- Improved checking for sizeof() taken of wrong type
- Support char literals when checking for conditions being always true or false
- Reimplemented check for usage of boolean results used in bitwise operations based on ValueType
- Improved checking for c_str() usage

Additionally, lots of false positives and bugs have been fixed and several existing checks have been improved.

Posted by Daniel Marjamäki 2016-06-05

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