Cppcheck-2.15.0

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.15

New checks:

• suspiciousFloatingPointCast flags unnecessary floating point casts that cause loss of precision

GUI:

• Added misra/cert/autosar reports
• Fixed "Recheck"
• Add "inline suppressions" option in project file
• Make it possible to define extra defines when importing a project

Changed interface:

• Added command-line option --cpp-header-probe (and --no-cpp-header-probe) to probe headers and extension-less files for Emacs marker (see https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/10692 for more details)

Deprecations:

• Support for Python 2.7 has been deprecated (it went EOL in January 2020) and will be removed in Cppcheck 2.16 - please use Python 3.x instead.
• The already deprecated support for qmake will be removed in Cppcheck 2.16 - please use CMake instead.

Other:

• Add support for 'CLICOLOR_FORCE'/'NO_COLOR' environment variables to force/disable ANSI color output for diagnostics.
• Add "remark comments" that can be used to generate reports with justifications for warnings
• The whole program analysis is now being executed when "--project" is being used.
• Improved import of Visual Studio projects, support shared items projects (*.vcxitems).