Cpplint
cpplint or cpplint.py is an open source lint-like tool developed by Google, designed to ensure that C++ code conforms to Google's coding style guides.
Therefore cpplint implements what Google considers to be "best practices" in C++ coding. The script cpplint.py reads source code files and flags deviations from the style guide. It also identifies syntax errors. It is rules based, and uses a number of heuristics to identify bad code.[1]
cpplint.py suffers from both false positives and false negatives.
False positives can be eliminated by tagging lines with // NOLINT[2] (or
// NOLINT(rule) to suppress only the incriminated rule category).
Moreover rules can be fine-grained selected using the options --verbose and --filter.
Line length rule can be configured with option --linelength
and file extensions can be configured with --extensions (by default: 'h', 'cpp', 'cc', 'cu' and 'cuh').
Some options can be stored in a configuration file CPPLINT.cfg.
cpplint is implemented as Python script.[3] cpplint is distributed under the 3 clause BSD license.
References
- ^ Dutko, Adam. "THE RELATIONAL DATABASE: A NEW STATIC ANALYSIS TOOL?" (PDF).
- ^ Weinberger, Benjy. "Google C++ Style Guide, section cpplint".
- ^ "GIT URL for cpplint.py".
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