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Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl
From: Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:23:09 -0500
On 1/28/2013 3:31 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
Tangentially, CppCheck [1] has support for custom checks using plugins. I've never had time to investigate properly, but I suspect that implementing the three check scripts (checkhf, checkAPIs, checkfiltername) as CppCheck plugins would be a major win, primarily because we'd get real C grammar parsing for free. Cheers, Evan [1] http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/
After looking at the cppcheck docs about writing rules & sampling the developer's cppcheck forum a bit, lets just say that I don't really get a warm feeling about trying to do our special tests with cppcheck.
The basic mechanism for adding rules appears to be nothing more than using regexs to pick out patterns on a tokenised version of the source program.
One can write rules using C++ code to traverse a tokenised version of the code; This doesn't seem much better.
I didn't see anything about plugins (other than cppcheck being used as a plugin by various IDE's). Maybe I missed something....
I imagine that there's much more capability if I want to really dig into the code and see how the existing capability is provided and how more comples rules might be written.
OTOH, using the CLang library[1] sounds quite interesting. It might be that it's possible to fairly easily do what is needed.
[1]http://amnoid.de/tmp/clangtut/tut.html Bill ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Bill Meier (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Evan Huus (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Bill Meier (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Bill Meier (Jan 31)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Evan Huus (Jan 31)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Pascal Quantin (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Maynard, Chris (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Bill Meier (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Maynard, Chris (Jan 28)
- Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 47326: / /trunk/tools/: checkhf-v2.pl Evan Huus (Jan 28)