Cppcheck v1.87 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-02-09 // about 5 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Command line interface:

    • --project can now import Cppcheck GUI projects.

    ๐Ÿ†• New checks:

    • Condition is always true when array address is compared with 0.
    • function argument expression calculation has known result (#8830)

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improvements:

    • ๐Ÿ‘ Better lifetime checking (using pointer/reference that points at deleted object)
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved whole program analysis
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Better handling of language extension var@address.
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Many improvements in parser to handle templates, type aliases, etc better

    ๐Ÿ”ง Configuration:

    • ๐Ÿ†• new configuration for boost
    • ๐Ÿ”ง much better wxwidgets configuration

    โž• Addons:

    • ๐Ÿ†• New addon for checking naming conventions. Naming conventions are configured in json file.

    ๐ŸŽ Performance:
    According to daca@home Cppcheck-1.87 is in average 10% faster than Cppcheck-1.86.