cppcheck

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.19

Major bug fixes & crashes:

• Crash in CheckClass::checkConst()
• fuzzing crash (assert) in Token::update_property_info()
• Crash in checkConstVariable()
• Crash in valueFlowLifetimeClassConstructor()
• GUI: scratch pad crash
• Assert failure in getParentValueTypes()
• Crash in simplecpp::Macro::expand()
• crash in Tokenizer::simplifyCPPAttribute()

New...

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.17

New checks:

• staticFunction: detect functions that should have internal linkage since they are not used outside of their translation unit (C code only).
• Check null pointer return from memory/resource allocation functions (nullPointerOutOfMemory, nullPointerArithmeticOutOfMemory, nullPointerOutOfResources, ctunullpointerOutOfMemory, ctunullpointerOut...

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.18

Changed interface:

• Updated path matching syntax for -i, --file-filter, suppressions, GUI excludes, and project file excludes. Old patterns that use a * may need to use ** instead if it is intended to match path separators. More details can be seen in the manual.

Deprecations:

• Support for building with Qt 5 will be removed in Cppcheck 2.19.
• The pl...

fixes:

• 2cec7ebcdc6808bddbd1230649e55add07656ddb fixed #13656 - fixed stack-use-after-scope in GUI
• 521d5d844d48def80bb2b6fb96e9a34f459bb8b1 Fix #13633 (safety: the xml version 3 report should show safety properties)

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.16.0

Improved checking:

• constVariable; checking multidimensional arrays
• constVariablePointer; nested array access
• deallocuse

Changed interface:

• SARIF output. Use --output-format=sarif to activate this.
• Add option --output-format=. Allowed formats are sarif and xml.

Deprecations:

• The previously deprecated support for Python 2.7 has bee...