- CodeChecker Analyzer Command Line User Guide
- Table of Contents
- Overview
- Quick Analysis
- Analysis configuration file
- CodeChecker analyzer subcommands
- Configuring Clang version
- Review status handling
- Setting with source code comments
- Supported formats
- Change review status of a specific checker result
- Change review status of a specific checker result by using a substring of the checker name
- Change review status of all checker results
- Change review status of all checker results with C style comment
- Multi line comments
- Multi line C style comments
- Change review status for multiple checker results in the same line
- Setting with config file
- Setting with source code comments
CodeChecker command line tooling provides sub-commands to perform static code analysis and to store reports into a web-based storage.
This document describes the analysis related sub-commands.
The analysis related use-cases can be fully performed without a web-server.
- Integration of the analysis with your build system
- Execuing Static Analysis
- Showing analysis results in the command line
- Applying code fixes
- Suppressing false positives with source-code comments
CodeChecker provides, along with the more fine-tuneable commands, some easy out-of-the-box invocations to ensure the most user-friendly operation, the check mode.
It is possible to easily analyze the project for defects without keeping the temporary analysis files and without using any database to store the reports in, but instead printing the found issues to the standard output.
To analyze your project by doing a build and reporting every found issue in the built files, execute
CodeChecker check --build "make"Please make sure your build command actually compiles (builds) the source files you intend to analyze, as CodeChecker only analyzes files that had been used by the build system.
If you have an already existing JSON Compilation Database file,
you can also supply it to check:
CodeChecker check --logfile ./my-build.jsonBy default, only the report's main messages are printed. To print the
individual steps the analyzers took in discovering the issue, specify
--print-steps.
check is a wrapper over the following calls:
- If
--buildis specified, the build is executed as ifCodeChecker logwere invoked. - The resulting logfile (compilation database) is used for
CodeChecker analyze, which will put analysis reports into--output. - The analysis results are fed for
CodeChecker parse.
After the results has been printed to the standard output, the temporary files used for the analysis are cleaned up.
Please see the individual help for log, analyze and
parse (below in this
User guide) for information about the arguments which are not documented
here. For example the CTU related arguments are documented at analyze
subcommand.
$ CodeChecker check --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker check [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIR] [-t {plist}] [-q]
[--keep-gcc-include-fixed] [--keep-gcc-intrin]
(-b COMMAND | -l LOGFILE) [-j JOBS] [-c]
[--compile-uniqueing COMPILE_UNIQUEING]
[--report-hash {context-free,context-free-v2,diagnostic-message}]
[-i SKIPFILE | --file FILE [FILE ...]]
[--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]]
[--capture-analysis-output] [--generate-reproducer]
[--config CONFIG_FILE]
[--saargs CLANGSA_ARGS_CFG_FILE]
[--tidyargs TIDY_ARGS_CFG_FILE]
[--analyzer-config [ANALYZER_CONFIG [ANALYZER_CONFIG ...]]]
[--checker-config [CHECKER_CONFIG [CHECKER_CONFIG ...]]]
[--timeout TIMEOUT]
[--ctu | --ctu-collect | --ctu-analyze]
[--ctu-reanalyze-on-failure]
[--ctu-ast-mode {load-from-pch,parse-on-demand}]
[-e checker/group/profile] [-d checker/group/profile]
[--enable-all] [--disable-all] [--print-steps]
[--suppress SUPPRESS]
[--review-status [REVIEW_STATUS [REVIEW_STATUS ...]]]
[--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}]
Run analysis for a project with printing results immediately on the standard
output. Check only needs a build command or an already existing logfile and
performs every step of doing the analysis in batch.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT_DIR, --output OUTPUT_DIR
Store the analysis output in the given folder. If it
is not given then the results go into a temporary
directory which will be removed after the analysis.
-t {plist}, --type {plist}, --output-format {plist}
Specify the format the analysis results should use.
(default: plist)
-q, --quiet If specified, the build tool's and the analyzers'
output will not be printed to the standard output.
--keep-gcc-include-fixed
There are some implicit include paths which are only
used by GCC (include-fixed). This flag determines
whether these should be kept among the implicit
include paths. (default: False)
--keep-gcc-intrin There are some implicit include paths which contain
GCC-specific header files (those which end with
intrin.h). This flag determines whether these should
be kept among the implicit include paths. Use this
flag if Clang analysis fails with error message
related to __builtin symbols. (default: False)
--compile-uniqueing COMPILE_UNIQUEING
Specify the method the compilation actions in the
compilation database are uniqued before analysis. CTU
analysis works properly only if there is exactly one
compilation action per source file. none(default in
non CTU mode): no uniqueing is done. strict: no
uniqueing is done, and an error is given if there is
more than one compilation action for a source file.
symlink: recognizes symlinks and removes duplication
in the compilation database to ensure that each source
file is analyzed only once. alpha(default in CTU mode):
If there is more than one compilation action for a
source file, only the one is kept that belongs to the
alphabetically first compilation target. If none of the
above given, this parameter should be a python regular
expression. If there is more than one compilation action
for a source, only the one is kept which matches the
given python regex. If more than one matches an error is
given. The whole compilation action text is searched
for match. (default: none)
--review-status [REVIEW_STATUS [REVIEW_STATUS ...]]
Filter results by review statuses. Valid values are:
confirmed, false_positive, intentional, suppress,
unreviewed (default: ['confirmed', 'unreviewed'])
--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}
Set verbosity level.
log arguments:
Specify how the build information database should be obtained. You need to
specify either an already existing log file, or a build command which will be
used to generate a log file on the fly.
-b COMMAND, --build COMMAND
Execute and record a build command. Build commands can
be simple calls to 'g++' or 'clang++' or 'make', but a
more complex command, or the call of a custom script
file is also supported.
-l LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE
Use an already existing JSON compilation command
database file specified at this path.
analyzer arguments:
-j JOBS, --jobs JOBS Number of threads to use in analysis. More threads
mean faster analysis at the cost of using more memory.
(default: <CPU count>)
-c, --clean Delete analysis reports stored in the output
directory. (By default, CodeChecker would keep reports
and overwrites only those files that were update by
the current build command).
--report-hash {context-free,context-free-v2,diagnostic-message}
Specify the hash calculation method for reports. By
default the calculation method for Clang Static
Analyzer is context sensitive and for Clang Tidy it is
context insensitive.
You can use the following calculation methods:
- context-free: there was a bug and for Clang Tidy not
the context free hash was generated (kept for backward
compatibility).
- context-free-v2: context free hash is used for
ClangSA and Clang Tidy.
- diagnostic-message: context free hash with bug step
messages is used for ClangSA and Clang Tidy.
See the 'issue hashes' section of the help message of
this command below for more information.
USE WISELY AND AT YOUR OWN RISK!
-i SKIPFILE, --ignore SKIPFILE, --skip SKIPFILE
Path to the Skipfile dictating which project files
should be omitted from analysis. Please consult the
User guide on how a Skipfile should be laid out.
--file FILE [FILE ...]
Analyze only the given file(s) not the whole
compilation database. Absolute directory paths should
start with '/', relative directory paths should start
with '*' and it can contain path glob pattern.
Example: '/path/to/main.cpp', 'lib/*.cpp', */test*'.
--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]
Run analysis only with the analyzers specified.
Currently supported analyzers are: clangsa, clang-
tidy.
--capture-analysis-output
Store standard output and standard error of successful
analyzer invocations into the '<OUTPUT_DIR>/success'
directory.
--generate-reproducer
Collect all necessary information for reproducing an
analysis action. The gathered files will be stored in a
folder named 'reproducer' under the report directory.
When this flag is used, 'failed' directory remains
empty.
--config CONFIG_FILE Allow the configuration from an explicit configuration
file. The values configured in the config file will
overwrite the values set in the command line.
You can use any environment variable inside this file
and it will be expanded.
For more information see the docs: https://github.com/
Ericsson/codechecker/tree/master/docs/config_file.md
(default: None)
--saargs CLANGSA_ARGS_CFG_FILE
File containing argument which will be forwarded
verbatim for the Clang Static analyzer.
--tidyargs TIDY_ARGS_CFG_FILE
File containing argument which will be forwarded
verbatim for the Clang-Tidy analyzer.
--analyzer-config [ANALYZER_CONFIG [ANALYZER_CONFIG ...]]
Analyzer configuration options in the following
format: analyzer:key=value. The collection of the
options can be printed with 'CodeChecker analyzers
--analyzer-config'. If the file at --tidyargs contains
a -config flag then those options extend these. To use
an analyzer configuration file in case of Clang Tidy
(.clang-tidy) use the
'clang-tidy:take-config-from-directory=true' option.
It will skip setting the '-checks' parameter of the
clang-tidy binary.
--checker-config [CHECKER_CONFIG [CHECKER_CONFIG ...]]
Checker configuration options in the following format:
analyzer:key=value. The collection of the options can
be printed with 'CodeChecker checkers --checker-
config'.
--timeout TIMEOUT The amount of time (in seconds) that each analyzer can
spend, individually, to analyze the project. If the
analysis of a particular file takes longer than this
time, the analyzer is killed and the analysis is
considered as a failed one.
--z3 {on,off} Enable Z3 as the solver backend. This allows reasoning
over more complex queries, but performance is much worse
than the default range-based constraint solver system.
WARNING: Z3 as the only backend is a highly
experimental and likely unstable feature. (default: off)
--z3-refutation {on,off}
Switch on/off the Z3 SMT Solver backend to reduce
false positives. The results of the ranged based
constraint solver in the Clang Static Analyzer will be
cross checked with the Z3 SMT solver. This should not
cause that much of a slowdown compared to using only the
Z3 solver. (default: on)
cross translation unit analysis arguments:
These arguments are only available if the Clang Static Analyzer supports
Cross-TU analysis. By default, no CTU analysis is run when 'CodeChecker check'
is called.
--ctu, --ctu-all Perform Cross Translation Unit (CTU) analysis, both
'collect' and 'analyze' phases. In this mode, the
extra files created by 'collect' are cleaned up after
the analysis.
--ctu-collect Perform the first, 'collect' phase of Cross-TU
analysis. This phase generates extra files needed by
CTU analysis, and puts them into '<OUTPUT_DIR>/ctu-
dir'. NOTE: If this argument is present, CodeChecker
will NOT execute the analyzers!
--ctu-analyze Perform the second, 'analyze' phase of Cross-TU
analysis, using already available extra files in
'<OUTPUT_DIR>/ctu-dir'. (These files will not be
cleaned up in this mode.)
--ctu-reanalyze-on-failure
If Cross-TU analysis is enabled and fails for some
reason, try to re analyze the same translation unit
without Cross-TU enabled.
--ctu-ast-mode {load-from-pch,parse-on-demand}
Choose the way ASTs are loaded during CTU analysis. Only
available if CTU mode is enabled. Mode 'load-from-pch'
generates PCH format serialized ASTs during the
'collect' phase. Mode 'parse-on-demand' only generates
the invocations needed to parse the ASTs. Mode
'load-from-pch' can use significant disk-space for the
serialized ASTs, while mode 'parse-on-demand' can incur
some runtime CPU overhead in the second phase of the
analysis. (default: parse-on-demand)
checker configuration:
Checkers
------------------------------------------------
An analyzer checks the source code with the help of checkers. Checkers
implement a specific rule, such as "don't divide by zero", and emit a warning
if the corresponding rule is violated. Available checkers can be listed by
'CodeChecker checkers'.
Checkers are grouped by CodeChecker via labels (described below), and sometimes
by their analyzer tool. An example for the latter is 'clangsa', which orders
checkers in a package hierarchy (e.g. in 'core.uninitialized.Assign', 'core'
and 'core.uninitialized' are packages).
Compiler warnings and errors
------------------------------------------------
Compiler warnings are diagnostic messages that report constructions that are
not inherently erroneous but that are risky or suggest there may have been an
error. However, CodeChecker views them as regular checkers.
Compiler warning names are transformed by CodeChecker to reflect the analyzer
name. For example, '-Wliteral-conversion' from clang-tidy is transformed to
'clang-diagnostic-literal-conversion'. However, they need to be enabled by
their original name, e.g. '-e Wliteral-conversion'.
Sometimes GCC is more permissive than Clang, so it is possible that a specific
construction doesn't compile with Clang but compiles with GCC. These
compiler errors are also collected as CodeChecker reports as
'clang-diagnostic-error'.
Note that compiler errors and warnings are captured by CodeChecker only if it
was emitted by clang-tidy.
Checker labels
------------------------------------------------
Each checker is assigned several '<label>:<value>' pairs. For instance,
'cppcheck-deallocret' has the labels 'profile:default' and 'severity:HIGH'. The
goal of labels is that you can enable or disable a batch of checkers with them.
You can enable/disable checkers belonging to a label: '-e <label>:<value>',
e.g. '-e profile:default'.
See "CodeChecker checkers --help" to learn more.
Guidelines
------------------------------------------------
CodeChecker recognizes several third party coding guidelines, such as
CppCoreGuidelines, SEI-CERT, or MISRA. These are collections of best
programming practices to avoid common programming errors. Some checkers cover
the rules of these guidelines. CodeChecker assigns the 'guideline' label to
these checkers, such as 'guideline:sei-cert'. This way you can list and enable
those checkers which check the fulfillment of certain guideline rules. See the
output of "CodeChecker checkers --guideline" command.
Guidelines are labels themselves, and can be used as a label:
'-e guideline:<value>', e.g. '-e guideline:sei-cert'.
Batch enabling/disabling checkers
------------------------------------------------
You can fine-tune which checkers to use in the analysis by setting the enable
and disable flags starting from the bigger groups and going inwards. Taking
for example the package hierarchy of 'clangsa', '-e core -d core.uninitialized
-e core.uninitialized.Assign' will enable every 'core' checker, but only
'core.uninitialized.Assign' from the 'core.uninitialized' group. Mind that
disabling certain checkers - such as the 'core' group is unsupported by the
LLVM/Clang community, and thus discouraged.
-e checker/group/profile, --enable checker/group/profile
Set a checker (or checker group), profile or guideline
to BE USED in the analysis. In case of ambiguity the
priority order is profile, guideline, checker name
(e.g. security means the profile, not the checker
group). Moreover, labels can also be used for
selecting checkers, for example profile:extreme or
severity:STYLE. See 'CodeChecker checkers --label' for
further details.
-d checker/group/profile, --disable checker/group/profile
Set a checker (or checker group), profile or guideline
to BE PROHIBITED from use in the analysis. In case of
ambiguity the priority order is profile, guideline,
checker name (e.g. security means the profile, not the
checker group). Moreover, labels can also be used for
selecting checkers, for example profile:extreme or
severity:STYLE. See 'CodeChecker checkers --label' for
further details.
--enable-all Force the running analyzers to use almost every
checker available. The checker groups 'alpha.',
'debug.','osx.', 'abseil-', 'android-', 'darwin-',
'objc-', 'cppcoreguidelines-', 'fuchsia.', 'fuchsia-',
'hicpp-', 'llvm-', 'llvmlibc-', 'google-', 'zircon-',
'osx.' (on Linux) are NOT enabled automatically and
must be EXPLICITLY specified. WARNING! Enabling all
checkers might result in the analysis losing precision
and stability, and could even result in a total
failure of the analysis. USE WISELY AND AT YOUR OWN
RISK!
--disable-all Disable all checkers of all analyzers. It is equivalent
to using "--disable default" as the first argument.
output arguments:
--print-steps Print the steps the analyzers took in finding the
reported defect.
--suppress SUPPRESS Path of the suppress file to use. Records in the
suppress file are used to suppress the display of
certain results when parsing the analyses' report.
(Reports to an analysis result can also be suppressed
in the source code -- please consult the manual on how
to do so.) NOTE: The suppress file relies on the "bug
identifier" generated by the analyzers which is
experimental, take care when relying on it.
Environment variables
------------------------------------------------
Environment variables for 'CodeChecker log' command:
CC_LOGGER_ABS_PATH If the environment variable is defined, all relative
paths in the compilation commands after '-I,
-idirafter, -imultilib, -iquote, -isysroot -isystem,
-iwithprefix, -iwithprefixbefore, -sysroot,
--sysroot' will be converted to absolute PATH when
written into the compilation database.
CC_LOGGER_DEBUG_FILE Output file to print log messages. By default if we
run the log command in debug mode it will generate
a 'codechecker.logger.debug' file beside the log
file.
CC_LOGGER_DEF_DIRS If the environment variable is defined, the logger
will extend the compiler argument list in the
compilation database with the pre-configured include
paths of the logged compiler.
CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE Set to to a colon separated list to change which
compilers should be logged. For example (default):
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:
cc:c++". The logger will match any compilers with
'gcc', 'g++', 'clang', 'clang++', 'cc' and 'c++' in
their filenames.
CC_LOGGER_KEEP_LINK If its value is not 'true' then object files will be
removed from the build action. For example in case
of this build command: 'gcc main.c object1.o
object2.so' the 'object1.o' and 'object2.so' will be
removed and only 'gcc main.c' will be captured. If
only object files are provided to the compiler then
the complete build action will be thrown away. This
means that build actions which only perform linking
will not be captured. We consider a file as object
file if its extension is '.o', '.so' or '.a'.
Environment variables for 'CodeChecker analyze' command:
CC_ANALYZERS_FROM_PATH Set to `yes` or `1` to enforce taking the analyzers
from the `PATH` instead of the given binaries.
CC_ANALYZER_BIN Set the absolute paths of an analyzer binaries.
Overrides other means of CodeChecker getting hold of
binary.
Format: CC_ANALYZER_BIN='<analyzer1>:/path/to/bin1;
<analyzer2>:/path/to/bin2'
CC_CLANGSA_PLUGIN_DIR If the CC_ANALYZERS_FROM_PATH environment variable
is set you can configure the plugin directory of the
Clang Static Analyzer by using this environment
variable.
Environment variables for 'CodeChecker parse' command:
CC_CHANGED_FILES Path of changed files json from Gerrit. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
CC_REPO_DIR Root directory of the sources, i.e. the directory
where the repository was cloned. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
CC_REPORT_URL URL where the report can be found. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
Issue hashes
------------------------------------------------
- By default the issue hash calculation method for 'Clang Static Analyzer' is
context sensitive. It means the hash will be generated based on the following
information:
* signature of the enclosing function declaration, type declaration or
namespace.
* content of the line where the bug is.
* unique name of the checker.
* position (column) within the line.
- By default the issue hash calculation method for 'Clang Tidy' is context
insensitive. It means the hash will be generated based on the following
information:
* 'file name' from the main diag section.
* 'checker name'.
* 'checker message'.
* 'line content' from the source file if can be read up.
* 'column numbers' from the main diag section.
* 'range column numbers' only from the control diag sections if column number
in the range is not the same as the previous control diag section number in
the bug path. If there are no control sections event section column numbers
are used.
- context-free: there was a bug and for Clang Tidy the default hash was
generated and not the context free hash (kept for backward compatibility). Use
'context-free-v2' instead of this.
- context-free-v2:
* 'file name' from the main diag section.
* 'checker message'.
* 'line content' from the source file if can be read up. All the whitespaces
from the source content are removed.
* 'column numbers' from the main diag sections location.
- diagnostic-message:
* Same as 'context-free-v2' (file name, checker message etc.)
* 'bug step messages' from all events.
Be careful with this hash because it can change easily for example on
variable / function renames.
OUR RECOMMENDATION: we recommend you to use 'context-free-v2' hash because the
hash will not be changed so easily for example on code indentation or when a
checker is renamed.
For more information see:
https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/blob/master/docs/analyzer/report_identification.md
Exit status
------------------------------------------------
0 - No report
1 - CodeChecker error
2 - At least one report emitted by an analyzer
3 - Analysis of at least one translation unit failed
128+signum - Terminating on a fatal signal whose number is signum
If you wish to reuse the logfile resulting from executing the build, see
'CodeChecker log'. To keep analysis results for later, see and use
'CodeChecker analyze'. To print human-readable output from previously saved
analysis results, see 'CodeChecker parse'. 'CodeChecker check' exposes a
wrapper calling these three commands in succession. Please make sure your build
command actually builds the files -- it is advised to execute builds on empty
trees, aka. after a 'make clean', as CodeChecker only analyzes files that had
been used by the build system.
CodeChecker command line invocation parameter list can be long.
All CodeChecker sub-command can use a --config CONFIG_FILE to describe
command line argument lists.
For example instead of always typing
CodeChecker analyze --enable=core.DivideZero --enable=core.CallAndMessage --analyzer-config clangsa:unroll-loops=true...
one can write CodeChecker store --config client_config.json.
client_config.json
{
"analyze": [
"--enable=core.DivideZero",
"--enable=core.CallAndMessage",
"--analyzer-config",
"clangsa:unroll-loops=true",
"--checker-config",
"clang-tidy:google-readability-function-size.StatementThreshold=100",
"--report-hash", "context-free-v2",
"--verbose=debug",
"--clean"
],
}For details see Client Configuration File
The first step in performing an analysis on your project is to record
information about the files in your project for the analyzers. This is done by
recording a build of your project using CodeChecker log command, that creates a
compilation database
file.
$ CodeChecker log --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker log [-h] -o LOGFILE -b COMMAND [-q]
[--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}]
Runs the given build command and records the executed compilation steps. These
steps are written to the output file in a JSON format. Available build logger
tool that will be used is '...'. ld-logger can be fine-tuned with some
environment variables. For details see the following documentation:
https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/tree/master/analyzer/tools/build-logger
logger/README.md#usage
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o LOGFILE, --output LOGFILE
Path of the file to write the collected compilation
commands to. If the file already exists, it will be
overwritten.
-b COMMAND, --build COMMAND
The build command to execute. Build commands can be
simple calls to 'g++' or 'clang++' or 'make', but a
more complex command, or the call of a custom script
file is also supported.
-q, --quiet Do not print the output of the build tool into the
output of this command.
--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}
Set verbosity level.
Environment variables
------------------------------------------------
CC_LOGGER_ABS_PATH If the environment variable is defined, all relative
paths in the compilation commands after '-I,
-idirafter, -imultilib, -iquote, -isysroot -isystem,
-iwithprefix, -iwithprefixbefore, -sysroot,
--sysroot' will be converted to absolute PATH when
written into the compilation database.
CC_LOGGER_DEBUG_FILE Output file to print log messages. By default if we
run the log command in debug mode it will generate
a 'codechecker.logger.debug' file beside the log
file.
CC_LOGGER_DEF_DIRS If the environment variable is defined, the logger
will extend the compiler argument list in the
compilation database with the pre-configured include
paths of the logged compiler.
CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE Set to to a colon separated list to change which
compilers should be logged. For example (default):
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:
cc:c++". The logger will match any compilers with
'gcc', 'g++', 'clang', 'clang++', 'cc' and 'c++' in
their filenames.
CC_LOGGER_KEEP_LINK If its value is not 'true' then object files will be
removed from the build action. For example in case
of this build command: 'gcc main.c object1.o
object2.so' the 'object1.o' and 'object2.so' will be
removed and only 'gcc main.c' will be captured. If
only object files are provided to the compiler then
the complete build action will be thrown away. This
means that build actions which only perform linking
will not be captured. We consider a file as object
file if its extension is '.o', '.so' or '.a'.
Please note, that only the files that are used in the given --build argument
will be recorded. To analyze your whole project, make sure your build tree has
been cleaned before executing log.
You can change the compilers that should be logged.
Set CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE environment variable to a colon separated list.
For example (default):
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:cc:c++"This colon separated list may contain compiler names or paths. In case an element of this list contains at least one slash (/) character then this is considered a path. The logger will capture only those build actions which have this postfix:
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:/bin/g++:clang:clang++:cc:c++"
# "gcc" has to be infix of the compiler's name because it contains no slash.
# "/bin/g++" has to be postfix of the compiler's path because it contains slash.
my/gcc/compiler/g++ main.cpp # Not captured because there is no match.
my/gcc/compiler/gcc-7 main.c # Captured because "gcc" is infix of "gcc-7".
/usr/bin/g++ main.cpp # Captured because "/bin/g++" is postfix of the compiler path.
/usr/bin/g++-7 main.cpp # Not captured because "/bin/g++" is not postfix of the compiler path.
# For an exact compiler binary name match start the binary name with a "/".
/clang # Will not log clang++ calls only the clang binary calls will be captured.
clang # Will capture clang-tidy (which is not wanted) calls too because of a partial match.Example:
CodeChecker log -o ../codechecker_myProject_build.log -b "make -j2"If you run CodeChecker log in verbose mode (debug or debug_analyzer) it
will create a 'codechecker.logger.debug' debug log file beside the given output
file. It will contain debug information of compilation database generation. You
can override this file if you set the CC_LOGGER_DEBUG_FILE environment
variable to a different file path.
export CC_LOGGER_DEBUG_FILE="/path/to/codechecker.debug.log"With CC_LOGGER_KEEP_LINK environment variable you can set whether linking
build actions (i.e. those which don't perform compilation but contain only
object files as input) should be captured. For further details see
this documentation.
If we change user inside the build command of the CodeChecker log command before the actual compiler invocation, the compilation database will be empty:
CodeChecker log -o compile_commands.json -b "su myuser -c 'g++ main.cpp -o /dev/null'"The problem here is that the compilation database file and the lock file will be created with the user who runs the CodeChecker log command and only this user will have permission to read/write these files. A solution can be if we change a user before the CodeChecker log command:
# Create a directory for compilation database.
mkdir -p log_dir
# Change file owner of log_dir.
chown myuser log_dir
# Run the command.
su myuser -c "CodeChecker log -o log_dir/compile_commands.json -b 'g++ main.cpp -o /dev/null'"Note: for an alternative integration, check-out meta-codechecker.
Do the following steps to log compiler calls made by BitBake using CodeChecker.
- Add
LD_LIBRARY_PATH,LD_PRELOAD,CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKEandCC_LOGGER_FILEtoBB_ENV_EXTRAWHITEvariable in your shell environment:
export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="LD_PRELOAD LD_LIBRARY_PATH CC_LOGGER_FILE CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE $BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE"Note: BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE specifies an additional set of variables to allow through
(whitelist) from the external environment into BitBake's datastore.
- Add the following lines to the
conf/bitbake.conffile:
export LD_PRELOAD
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export CC_LOGGER_FILE
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE- Run
CodeChecker log:
CodeChecker log -o ../compile_commands.json -b "bitbake myProject"If your build system setup uses CCache then it can be logged too. If
CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE contains "cc" or "ccache" directly then these actions will
also be logged. Depending on CCache configuration there are two forms how it
can be used:
ccache g++ -DHELLO=world main.cpp
ccache -DHELLO=world main.cppThe compiler may or may not follow ccache command. If the compiler is missing
then the used compiler can be configured in a config file or an environment
variable.
Currently CodeChecker supports only the first case where the compiler name is also included in the build command.
intercept-build is an alternative
tool for logging the compilation actions. Note that its first version (1.1) had
a bug in case the original build command contained a space character:
intercept-build bash -c 'g++ -DVARIABLE="hello world" main.cpp'When analyzing this build action, CodeChecker will most probably give a compilation error on the underlying Clang invocation.
Do the following steps to log compiler calls made by Bazel using CodeChecker.
- We need to deactivate the "sandbox" mechanism of Bazel:
- Use
--batchmode. Batch mode causes Bazel to not use the standard client/server mode instead running a bazel java process for a single command. - Use
--spawn_strategy=localoption which causes commands to be executed as local subprocesses. - Use
--strategy=Genrule=strategyoption.
- Keep the following environment variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATHLD_PRELOADCC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKECC_LOGGER_FILE
CodeChecker log -o ./compile_commands.json -b \
"bazel --batch \
build \
--spawn_strategy=local \
--strategy=Genrule=local \
--action_env=LD_PRELOAD=\$LD_PRELOAD \
--action_env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
--action_env=CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE=\$CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE \
--action_env=CC_LOGGER_FILE=\$CC_LOGGER_FILE \
//main:hello-world"Note: If you would like to create a compilation database for your full build do not
forget to clear
your project first: bazel clean --expunge.
After a JSON Compilation Command Database has been created, the next step is
to invoke and execute the analyzers. CodeChecker will use the specified
logfiles (there can be multiple given) and create the outputs to the
--output directory. (These outputs will be plist files, currently only
these are supported.) The machine-readable output files can be used later on
for printing an overview in the terminal (CodeChecker parse) or storing
(CodeChecker store) analysis results in a database, which can later on be
viewed in a browser.
Examples:
CodeChecker analyze ../codechecker_myProject_build.log -o my_plists
CodeChecker analyze main.cpp -o my_plists
CodeChecker analyze project_root -o my_plistsNote: If your compilation database log file contains relative paths you have to make sure that you run the analysis command from the same directory as the logger was run (i.e. that paths are relative to).
In case a source file or a project directory is given as analysis input, the
process still relies on the compilation database JSON file, because CodeChecker
tries to find it implicitly. So make sure that a compile_commands.json
describing the build commands of analyzed modules is available in the project
tree.
CodeChecker analyze supports a myriad of fine-tuning arguments, explained
below:
$ CodeChecker analyze --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker analyze [-h] [-j JOBS]
[-i SKIPFILE | --file FILE [FILE ...]] -o
OUTPUT_PATH
[--compiler-info-file COMPILER_INFO_FILE]
[--keep-gcc-include-fixed] [--keep-gcc-intrin]
[-t {plist}] [-q] [-c]
[--compile-uniqueing COMPILE_UNIQUEING]
[--report-hash {context-free,context-free-v2,diagnostic-message}]
[-n NAME] [--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]]
[--capture-analysis-output] [--generate-reproducer]
[--config CONFIG_FILE]
[--cppcheckargs CPPCHECK_ARGS_CFG_FILE]
[--saargs CLANGSA_ARGS_CFG_FILE]
[--tidyargs TIDY_ARGS_CFG_FILE]
[--timeout TIMEOUT]
[--ctu | --ctu-collect | --ctu-analyze]
[--ctu-ast-mode {load-from-pch, parse-on-demand}]
[--ctu-reanalyze-on-failure]
[-e checker/group/profile]
[-d checker/group/profile] [--enable-all]
[--disable-all]
[--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}]
input
Use the previously created JSON Compilation Database to perform an analysis on
the project, outputting analysis results in a machine-readable format.
positional arguments:
input The input of the analysis can be either a compilation
database JSON file, a path to a source file or a path
to a directory containing source files.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-j JOBS, --jobs JOBS Number of threads to use in analysis. More threads
mean faster analysis at the cost of using more memory.
(default: <CPU count>)
-i SKIPFILE, --ignore SKIPFILE, --skip SKIPFILE
Path to the Skipfile dictating which project files
should be omitted from analysis. Please consult the
User guide on how a Skipfile should be laid out.
--file FILE [FILE ...]
Analyze only the given file(s) not the whole
compilation database. Absolute directory paths should
start with '/', relative directory paths should start
with '*' and it can contain path glob pattern.
Example: '/path/to/main.cpp', 'lib/*.cpp', */test*'.
-o OUTPUT_PATH, --output OUTPUT_PATH
Store the analysis output in the given folder.
--compiler-info-file COMPILER_INFO_FILE
Read the compiler includes and target from the
specified file rather than invoke the compiler
executable.
--keep-gcc-include-fixed
There are some implicit include paths which
are only used by GCC (include-fixed). This flag
determines whether these should be kept among the
implicit include paths. (default: False)
--keep-gcc-intrin There are some implicit include paths which contain
GCC-specific header files (those which end with
intrin.h). This flag determines whether these should
be kept among the implicit include paths. Use this
flag if Clang analysis fails with error message
related to __builtin symbols. (default: False)
-t {plist}, --type {plist}, --output-format {plist}
Specify the format the analysis results should use.
(default: plist)
--makefile Generate a Makefile in the given output directory from
the analyzer commands and do not execute the analysis.
The analysis can be executed by calling the make
command like 'make -f output_dir/Makefile'. You can
ignore errors with the -i/--ignore-errors options:
'make -f output_dir/Makefile -i'. (default: False)
-q, --quiet Do not print the output or error of the analyzers to
the standard output of CodeChecker.
-c, --clean Delete analysis reports stored in the output
directory. (By default, CodeChecker would keep reports
and overwrites only those files that were update by
the current build command).
--compile-uniqueing COMPILE_UNIQUEING
Specify the method the compilation actions in the
compilation database are uniqued before analysis. CTU
analysis works properly only if there is exactly one
compilation action per source file. none(default in
non CTU mode): no uniqueing is done. strict: no
uniqueing is done, and an error is given if there is
more than one compilation action for a source file.
symlink: recognizes symlinks and removes duplication
in the compilation database to ensure that each source
file is analyzed only once. alpha(default in CTU mode):
If there is more than one compilation action for a
source file, only the one is kept that belongs to the
alphabetically first compilation target. If none of the
above given, this parameter should be a python regular
expression. If there is more than one compilation action
for a source, only the one is kept which matches the
given python regex. If more than one matches an error is
given. The whole compilation action text is searched
for match. (default: none)
--report-hash {context-free,context-free-v2,diagnostic-message}
Specify the hash calculation method for reports. By
default the calculation method for Clang Static
Analyzer is context sensitive and for Clang Tidy it is
context insensitive.
You can use the following calculation methods:
- context-free: there was a bug and for Clang Tidy not
the context free hash was generated (kept for backward
compatibility).
- context-free-v2: context free hash is used for
ClangSA and Clang Tidy.
- diagnostic-message: context free hash with bug step
messages is used for ClangSA and Clang Tidy.
See the 'issue hashes' section of the help message of
this command below for more information.
USE WISELY AND AT YOUR OWN RISK!
-n NAME, --name NAME Annotate the run analysis with a custom name in the
created metadata file.
--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}
Set verbosity level.
Environment variables
------------------------------------------------
CC_ANALYZERS_FROM_PATH Set to `yes` or `1` to enforce taking the analyzers
from the `PATH` instead of the given binaries.
CC_ANALYZER_BIN Set the absolute paths of an analyzer binaries.
Overrides other means of CodeChecker getting hold of
binary.
Format: CC_ANALYZER_BIN='<analyzer1>:/path/to/bin1;
<analyzer2>:/path/to/bin2'
CC_CLANGSA_PLUGIN_DIR If the CC_ANALYZERS_FROM_PATH environment variable
is set you can configure the plugin directory of the
Clang Static Analyzer by using this environment
variable.
-i SKIPFILE, --ignore SKIPFILE, --skip SKIPFILE
Path to the Skipfile dictating which project files
should be omitted from analysis.
Skipfiles filter which files should or should not be analyzed. CodeChecker reads the skipfile from top to bottom and stops at the first matching pattern when deciding whether or not a file should be analyzed.
Each line in the skip file begins with a - or a +, followed by a path glob
pattern. - means that if a file matches a pattern it should not be
checked, + means that it should be.
- Absolute directory paths should start with
/. - Relative directory paths should start with
*. - Path parts should start and end with
*. - To skip everything use the
-*mark. Watch out for the order!
Comments can also be used in skipfiles: a line starting with # will not be
taken into account.
-/skip/all/files/in/directory/*
-/do/not/check/this.file
+/dir/do.check.this.file
-/dir/*
In the above example, every file under /dir will be skipped, except the
one explicitly specified to be analyzed (/dir/do.check.this.file).
+*/my_project/my_lib_to_skip/important_file.cpp
-*/my_project/my_lib_to_skip*
-*/my_project/3pplib/*
+*/my_project/*
In the above example, important_file.cpp will be analyzed even if every file
where the path matches to /my_project/my_lib_to_skip will be skiped.
Every other file where the path contains /myproject except the files in the
my_project/3pplib will be analyzed.
The provided shell-style pattern is converted to a regex with the fnmatch.translate.
Please note that when -i SKIPFILE is used along with --stats or
--ctu the skip list will be ignored in the pre-analysis phase. This means
that statistics and ctu-pre-analysis will be created for all files in the
compilation database.
analyzer arguments:
--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]
Run analysis only with the analyzers specified.
Currently supported analyzers are: clangsa, clang-
tidy.
--capture-analysis-output
Store standard output and standard error of successful
analyzer invocations into the '<OUTPUT_DIR>/success'
directory.
--generate-reproducer
Collect all necessary information for reproducing an
analysis action. The gathered files will be stored in a
folder named 'reproducer' under the report directory.
When this flag is used, 'failed' directory remains
empty.
--config CONFIG_FILE Allow the configuration from an explicit configuration
file. The values configured in the config file will
overwrite the values set in the command line.
You can use any environment variable inside this file
and it will be expaneded.
For more information see the docs: https://github.com/
Ericsson/codechecker/tree/master/docs/config_file.md
(default: None)
--cppcheckargs CPPCHECK_ARGS_CFG_FILE
File containing argument which will be forwarded
verbatim for Cppcheck.
--saargs CLANGSA_ARGS_CFG_FILE
File containing argument which will be forwarded
verbatim for the Clang Static Analyzer.
--tidyargs TIDY_ARGS_CFG_FILE
File containing argument which will be forwarded
verbatim for Clang-Tidy.
--analyzer-config [ANALYZER_CONFIG [ANALYZER_CONFIG ...]]
Analyzer configuration options in the following
format: analyzer:key=value. The collection of the
options can be printed with 'CodeChecker analyzers
--analyzer-config'. If the file at --tidyargs contains
a -config flag then those options extend these. To use
an analyzer configuration file in case of Clang Tidy
(.clang-tidy) use the
'clang-tidy:take-config-from-directory=true' option.
It will skip setting the '-checks' parameter of the
clang-tidy binary.
--checker-config [CHECKER_CONFIG [CHECKER_CONFIG ...]]
Checker configuration options in the following format:
analyzer:key=value. The collection of the options can
be printed with 'CodeChecker checkers
--checker-config'.
--timeout TIMEOUT The amount of time (in seconds) that each analyzer can
spend, individually, to analyze the project. If the
analysis of a particular file takes longer than this
time, the analyzer is killed and the analysis is
considered as a failed one.
--z3 {on,off} Enable Z3 as the solver backend. This allows reasoning
over more complex queries, but performance is much worse
than the default range-based constraint solver system.
WARNING: Z3 as the only backend is a highly
experimental and likely unstable feature. (default: off)
--z3-refutation {on,off}
Switch on/off the Z3 SMT Solver backend to reduce
false positives. The results of the ranged based
constraint solver in the Clang Static Analyzer will be
cross checked with the Z3 SMT solver. This should not
cause that much of a slowdown compared to using only the
Z3 solver. (default: on)
CodeChecker supports several analyzer tools. Currently, these analyzers are
the Clang Static Analyzer,
Clang-Tidy,
Cppcheck and
GCC Static Analyzer.
--analyzers can be used to specify which analyzer tool should be used (by
default, all supported are used). The tools are completely independent, so
either can be omitted if not present as they are provided by different
binaries.
See Configure Clang Static Analyzer and checkers
documentation for a more detailed description how to use the saargs,
tidyargs and z3 arguments.
CodeChecker's analyzer module currently handles ClangSA and ClangTidy. The main purpose of this analyzer module is to hide the differences between the interfaces and parameterization of these two tools. Both ClangSA and ClangTidy have a set of checkers with fine-tuning config options and the analyzer tools themselves can also be configured.
ClangSA performs symbolic execution which is a resource consuming method of simulating the program run. Some heuristics are guiding the analyzer engine in order to prevent too much memory consumption. For example the loops are not simulated to the infinity, but at most four iterations are done. If you have more resource, you can turn on full loop unrolling if the number of interations is determinable by the analyzer.
To list the available analyzer config options use the following commands:
CodeChecker analyzers --analyzer-config <analyzer_name> --details
The <analyzer_name> can be either clangsa or clang-tidy. The available
analyzers can be listed by:
CodeChecker analyzers --details
The --details flag is always optional. It provides more information about
the specific output. In case of config options it gives a short description
about the option and its default value.
The output of the loop-related analyzer options is this:
clangsa:cfg-loopexit (bool) Whether or not the end of the loop information should be included in the CFG. (default: false)
clangsa:unroll-loops (bool) Whether the analysis should try to unroll loops with known bounds. (default: false)
clangsa:widen-loops (bool) Whether the analysis should try to widen loops. (default: false)
The format of passing the config option to the analyzer is:
analyzer_name:key=value. So if you need the loop unrolling functionality
then use the following analyzer command:
CodeChecker analyze build.json \
--analyzer-config clangsa:unroll-loops=true \
-o reports
Each analyzer tool provides a set of checkers. These can be listed with the following command:
CodeChecker checkers --details
Some of these checkers have some fine-tuning config options. For example suppose that you'd like to rule the complexity of functions. First you can list the available checkers and find the one which checks functions' size:
CodeChecker checkers --details
Every supported checker is reported by the checkers command and all of its
subcommands.
After finding google-readability-function-size checker, you can list the
config options with the following command:
CodeChecker checkers --checker-config --details
--details flag is optional again. It displays the default values and the
description of the checker options. In the list you can find the appropriate
configuration on function size. It has to be given in the same format as the
analyzer options: analyzer_name:key=value, but this time use the flag
--checker-config:
CodeChecker analyze build.json \
--checker-config clang-tidy:google-readability-function-size.StatementThreshold=100 \
-o reports
❗ Warning: ClangTidy can be configured with a config file named
.clang-tidy located somewhere in the project tree. If either
--analyzer-config or --checker-config flag is given to the analyzer
command, this file will not be used at all. This is important because the
default value of --analyzer-config is clang-tidy:HeaderFilterRegex=.* which
makes ClangTidy report on issues in header files too. If you'd like to
overwrite this default value so .clang-tidy is used then
--analyzer-config clang-tidy:take-config-from-directory=true must be given.
The analyzer and checker configuration options can also be inserted in the CodeChecker configuration file. See an example above.
In those rare cases when the specific analyzer tools need an option other than
the ones listed in the previous section, you can create a file of which the
content will be forwarded verbatim to the analyzer. The main difficulty here is
that you need to know the parameterization of the analyzers precisely. The
usage of this option is not recommended. --analyzer-config and
--checker-config is preferred over these!
Forwarded options can modify the compilation actions logged by the build logger or created by CMake (when exporting compile commands). The extra compiler options can be given in config files which are provided by the flags described below.
The config files can contain placeholders in $(ENV_VAR) format. If the
ENV_VAR environment variable is set then the placeholder is replaced to its
value. Otherwise an error message is logged saying that the variable is not
set, and in this case an empty string is inserted in the place of the
placeholder.
Use the --saargs argument to a file which contains compilation options.
CodeChecker analyze mylogfile.json --saargs extra_sa_compile_flags.txt -n myProjectWhere the extra_sa_compile_flags.txt file contains additional compilation
options, for example:
-I~/include/for/analysis -I$(MY_LIB)/include -DDEBUG(where MY_LIB is the path of a library code)
Use the --tidyargs argument to a file which contains compilation options.
CodeChecker analyze mylogfile.json --tidyargs extra_tidy_compile_flags.txt -n myProjectWhere the extra_tidy_compile_flags.txt file contains additional compilation
flags.
Clang-Tidy requires a different format to add compilation options.
Compilation options can be added before (-extra-arg-before=<string>) and
after (-extra-arg=<string>) the original compilation options.
Example:
-extra-arg-before='-I~/include/for/analysis' -extra-arg-before='-I~/other/include/for/analysis/' -extra-arg-before='-I$(MY_LIB)/include' -extra-arg='-DDEBUG'(where MY_LIB is the path of a library code)
CodeChecker will get the hardcoded values for the compilers set in the
CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE environment variable.
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:cc:c++"GCC specific hard-coded values are detected during the analysis and
recorded int the <report-directory>/compiler_info.json.
If you want to run the analysis with a specific compiler configuration
instead of the auto-detection you can pass that to the
--compiler-info-file compiler_info.json parameter.
There are some standard locations which compilers use in order to find standard
header files. These paths are hard-coded in GCC compiler. CodeChecker is able
to collect these so the analysis process can run in the same environment as the
original build. However, there are some GCC-specific locations (usually with
name include-fixed) which may be incompatible with other compilers and may
cause failure in analysis. CodeChecker omits these GCC-specific paths from the
analysis unless --keep-gcc-include-fixed or --keep-gcc-intrin flag is
given. For further information see
GCC incompatibilities.
The list of checkers to be used in the analysis can be fine-tuned with the
--enable and --disable options. See codechecker-checkers for the list of
available checkers in the binaries installed on your system.
checker configuration:
-e checker/group/profile, --enable checker/group/profile
Set a checker (or checker group or checker profile)
to BE USED in the analysis. In case of ambiguity the
priority order is profile, guideline, checker name
(e.g. security means the profile, not the checker
group). Moreover, labels can also be used for
selecting checkers, for example profile:extreme or
severity:STYLE. See 'CodeChecker checkers --label' for
further details.
-d checker/group/profile, --disable checker/group/profile
Set a checker (or checker group or checker profile)
to BE PROHIBITED from use in the analysis. In case of
ambiguity the priority order is profile, guideline,
checker name (e.g. security means the profile, not the
checker group). Moreover, labels can also be used for
selecting checkers, for example profile:extreme or
severity:STYLE. See 'CodeChecker checkers --label' for
further details.
--enable-all Force the running analyzers to use almost every
checker available. The checker groups 'alpha.',
'debug.','osx.', 'abseil-', 'android-', 'darwin-',
'objc-', 'cppcoreguidelines-', 'fuchsia.', 'fuchsia-',
'hicpp-', 'llvm-', 'llvmlibc-', 'google-', 'zircon-',
'osx.' (on Linux) are NOT enabled automatically and
must be EXPLICITLY specified. WARNING! Enabling all
checkers might result in the analysis losing precision
and stability, and could even result in a total
failure of the analysis. USE WISELY AND AT YOUR OWN
RISK!
--disable-all Disable all checkers of all analyzers. It is equivalent
to using "--disable default" as the first argument.
Both --enable and --disable take individual checkers, checker groups or
checker profiles as their argument and there can be any number of such flags
specified. Flag order is important, subsequent options overwrite previously
specified ones. For example
--enable extreme --disable core.uninitialized --enable core.uninitialized.Assignwill enable every checker of the extreme profile that do not belong to the
core.uninitialized group, with the exception of core.uninitialized.Assign,
which will be enabled after all.
Checkers are taken into account based on the following order:
- First the default state is taken based on the analyzer tool.
- Members of "default" profile are enabled.
- In case of
--enable-allevery checker is enabled except foralphaand "debug" checker groups.osxchecker group is also not included unless the target platform is Darwin. - Command line
--enable/--disableflags.- Their arguments may start with
profile:ofguideline:prefix which makes the choice explicit. - Without prefix it means a profile name, a guideline name or a checker group/name in this priority order.
- Their arguments may start with
Disabling certain checkers - such as the core group - is unsupported by
the LLVM/Clang community, and thus discouraged.
Compiler warnings are diagnostic messages that report constructions that are
not inherently erroneous but that are risky or suggest there may have been an
error. Compiler warnings are named clang-diagnostic-<warning-option>, e.g.
Clang warning controlled by -Wliteral-conversion will be reported with check
name clang-diagnostic-literal-conversion.
You can fine-tune which warnings to use in the analysis by setting the enabled
and disabled flags starting from the bigger groups and going inwards. For
example
--enable Wunused --disable Wno-unused-parameteror
--enable Wunused --disable Wunused-parameterwill enable every unused warnings except unused-parameter. These flags
should start with a capital W or Wno- prefix followed by the warning name
(E.g.: -e Wliteral-conversion, -d Wno-literal-conversion or
-d Wliteral-conversion). To turn off a compiler warning you can use the
negative form beginning with Wno- (e.g.: --disable Wno-literal-conversion)
or you can use the positive form beginning with W (e.g.:
--enable Wliteral-conversion). For more information see:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html.
A warning can be referred in both formats: -d Wunused-parameter and
-d clang-diagnostic-unused-parameter are the same.
clang-diagnostic-error is a special one, since it doesn't refer a warning but
a compilation error. This is enabled by default and will be stored as a
critical severity bug.
Note: by default -Wall and -Wextra warnings are enabled.
Checker profiles describe custom sets of enabled checks which can be specified
in the {INSTALL_DIR}/config/labels directory. Three built-in
options are available grouping checkers by their quality (measured by their
false positive rate): default, sensitive and extreme. In addition,
profile portability contains checkers for detecting platform-dependent code
issues. These issues can arise when migrating code from 32-bit to 64-bit
architectures, and the root causes of the bugs tend to be overflows, sign
extensions and widening conversions or casts. Detailed information about
profiles can be retrieved by the CodeChecker checkers command.
Note: list is a reserved keyword used to show all the available profiles and
thus should not be used as a profile name. Profile names should also be
different from checker(-group) names as they are enabled using the same syntax
and coinciding names could cause unintended behavior.
Specifying --enable-all will "force" CodeChecker to enable every checker
available in the analyzers. This presents an easy shortcut to force such an
analysis without the need of editing configuration files or supplying long
command-line arguments. However, --enable-all might result in the analysis
losing stability and precision, and worst case, might result in a complete and
utter failure in the analysis itself. --enable-all may only be used at
your own risk!
Even specifying --enable-all will NOT enable checkers from the following
special checker groups: alpha., debug., osx., abseil-, android-,
darwin-, objc-, cppcoreguidelines-, fuchsia., fuchsia-, hicpp-,
llvm-, llvmlibc-, google-, zircon.
osx. checkers are only enabled if CodeChecker is run on a macOS machine.
--enable-all can further be fine-tuned with subsequent --enable and
--disable arguments, for example
--enable-all --enable alpha --disable misccan be used to "further" enable alpha. checkers, and disable misc ones.
Some checkers are always enabled by default, because they are categorized in
default profile. This flag is equivalent to using --disable default which
technically disables all checkers. The motivation behind --disable-all is to
enable one specific checker and disable everything else:
CodeChecker check -l compile_commands.json --disable-all --enable core.DivideZeroIf the clang static analyzer binary in your installation supports
Cross Translation Unit analysis,
CodeChecker can execute the analyzers with this mode enabled.
These options are only visible in analyze if CTU support is present. CTU
mode uses some extra storage space under the specified --output-dir.
cross translation unit analysis arguments:
These arguments are only available if the Clang Static Analyzer supports
Cross-TU analysis. By default, no such analysis is run when 'CodeChecker
analyze' is called.
--ctu, --ctu-all Perform Cross Translation Unit (CTU) analysis, both
'collect' and 'analyze' phases. In this mode, the
extra files created by 'collect' are cleaned up after
the analysis.
--ctu-collect Perform the first, 'collect' phase of Cross-TU
analysis. This phase generates extra files needed by
CTU analysis, and puts them into '<OUTPUT_DIR>/ctu-
dir'. NOTE: If this argument is present, CodeChecker
will NOT execute the analyzers!
--ctu-analyze Perform the second, 'analyze' phase of Cross-TU
analysis, using already available extra files in
'<OUTPUT_DIR>/ctu-dir'. (These files will not be
cleaned up in this mode.)
--ctu-ast-mode {load-from-pch,parse-on-demand}
Choose the way ASTs are loaded during CTU analysis. Only
available if CTU mode is enabled. Mode 'load-from-pch'
generates PCH format serialized ASTs during the
'collect' phase. Mode 'parse-on-demand' only generates
the invocations needed to parse the ASTs. Mode
'load-from-pch' can use significant disk-space for the
serialized ASTs, while mode 'parse-on-demand' can incur
some runtime CPU overhead in the second phase of the
analysis. (default: parse-on-demand)
Taint analysis is used to detect bugs and potential security-related errors
caused by untrusted data sources.
An untrusted data source is usually an IO operation in code, often related to
the file-system, database, network, or environment variables.
Taint analysis works by defining operations that introduce tainted values
(sources), operations that cause taint to spread from tainted values
(propagators), and operations that are sensitive to tainted values (sinks).
Developers can also use an additional category of filters to express that some
operations sanitize tainted values, and after sanitization,
the value is trusted and safe to use.
Taint analysis can be used with the default configuration by enabling the
alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagation checker:
CodeChecker analyze -e alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagationTaint analysis can be used with custom configuration by specifying the taint
configuration file as a checker-option in addition to enabling the
alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagation checker:
CodeChecker analyze \
-e alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagation \
--checker-config 'clangsa:alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagation:Config=my-cutom-taint-config.yaml'Taint analysis false positives can be handled by either using the warning suppression via comments in the code (same as with other CodeChecker reports), or by providing filter operations via a custom configuration file.
The default configuration options of taint analysis are documented in the checker's documentation.
Clang SA's conceptual model of taint analysis and the checker's configuration file format is documented in the Taint Analysis Configuration docs.
If the clang static analyzer binary in your installation supports
statistical checkers CodeChecker can execute the analyzers
with this mode enabled.
These options are only visible in analyze if the experimental
statistical analysis support is present.
Statistics analysis feature arguments:
These arguments are only available if the Clang Static Analyzer supports
Statistics-based analysis (e.g. statisticsCollector.ReturnValueCheck,
statisticsCollector.SpecialReturnValue checkers are available).
--stats-collect STATS_OUTPUT, --stats-collect STATS_OUTPUT
Perform the first, 'collect' phase of Statistical
analysis. This phase generates extra files needed by
statistics analysis, and puts them into
'<STATS_OUTPUT>'. NOTE: If this argument is present,
CodeChecker will NOT execute the analyzers!
--stats-use STATS_DIR, --stats-use STATS_DIR
Use the previously generated statistics results for
the analysis from the given '<STATS_DIR>'.
--stats Perform both phases of Statistical analysis. This
phase generates extra files needed by statistics
analysis and enables the statistical checkers. No
need to enable them explicitly.
--stats-min-sample-count STATS_MIN_SAMPLE_COUNT, --stats-min-sample-count STATS_MIN_SAMPLE_COUNT
Minimum number of samples (function call occurrences)
to be collected for a statistics to be relevant.
(default: 10)
--stats-relevance-threshold STATS_RELEVANCE_THRESHOLD, --stats-relevance-threshold STATS_RELEVANCE_THRESHOLD
The minimum ratio of calls of function f that must
have a certain property to consider it true for that
function (calculated as calls with a property/all
calls). CodeChecker will warn for calls of f that do
not have that property.(default: 0.85)
CodeChecker supports the storage of dynamic analysis reports through the
report-converter
tool which is able to produce .plist files based on the output of some
sanitizers. .plist is currently the common format for describing analysis
reports that serves as an interface between analyzers and CodeChecker. Clang
Static Analyzer emits this format natively and report-converter also uses this
output format.
In terms of dynamic analysis the order of emitted reports may also carry some information: an earlier report may be the root cause of a later report. The ordering can be accomplished by a timestamp when an issue was reported.
Dynamic analyzers are usually executed during a test CI job in parallel. This parallelism results overlapping dynamic reports of independent testcase executions in time. These can be separated by the indication of the testcase's name.
.plist files can be extended with a report-annotation section shown in the
following example. Report annotations are custom labels that can be attached to
a report. CodeChecker supports the usage of testcase and timestamp
annotations. timestamp can be used for ordering and testcase can be used
for filtering reports in the CodeChecker GUI.
<dict>
<key>diagnostics</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>category</key>
<string>unknown</string>
<key>check_name</key>
<string>UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer</string>
<key>description</key>
<string>...</string>
<key>issue_hash_content_of_line_in_context</key>
<string>...</string>
<key>location</key>
<dict>...</dict>
<key>report-annotation</key>
<dict>
<key>testcase</key>
<string>yhegalkoei</string>
<key>timestamp</key>
<string>1970-04-26T17:27:55</string>
</dict>
<key>path</key>
<array>
...
</array>
</dict>
parse is used to read previously created machine-readable analysis results
(such as plist files), usually previously generated by CodeChecker analyze.
parse prints analysis results to the standard output.
$ CodeChecker parse --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker parse [-h] [--config CONFIG_FILE] [-t {plist}]
[-e {html,json,codeclimate,gerrit,baseline}]
[-o OUTPUT_PATH] [--suppress SUPPRESS]
[--export-source-suppress] [--print-steps]
[-i SKIPFILE]
[--trim-path-prefix [TRIM_PATH_PREFIX [TRIM_PATH_PREFIX ...]]]
[--review-status [REVIEW_STATUS [REVIEW_STATUS ...]]]
[--verbose {info,debug_analyzer,debug}]
file/folder [file/folder ...]
Parse and pretty-print the summary and results from one or more
'codechecker-analyze' result files. Bugs which are commented by using
"false_positive", "suppress" and "intentional" source code comments will not be
printed by the `parse` command.
positional arguments:
file/folder The analysis result files and/or folders containing
analysis results which should be parsed and printed.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG_FILE Allow the configuration from an explicit configuration
file. The values configured in the config file will
overwrite the values set in the command line.
You can use any environment variable inside this file
and it will be expaneded.
For more information see the docs: https://github.com/
Ericsson/codechecker/tree/master/docs/config_file.md
(default: None)
-t {plist}, --type {plist}, --input-format {plist}
Specify the format the analysis results were created
as. (default: plist)
--suppress SUPPRESS Path of the suppress file to use. Records in the
suppress file are used to suppress the display of
certain results when parsing the analyses' report.
(Reports to an analysis result can also be suppressed
in the source code -- please consult the manual on how
to do so.) NOTE: The suppress file relies on the "bug
identifier" generated by the analyzers which is
experimental, take care when relying on it.
--export-source-suppress
Write suppress data from the suppression annotations
found in the source files that were analyzed earlier
that created the results. The suppression information
will be written to the parameter of '--suppress'.
--print-steps Print the steps the analyzers took in finding the
reported defect.
-i SKIPFILE, --ignore SKIPFILE, --skip SKIPFILE
Path to the Skipfile dictating which project files
should be omitted from analysis. Please consult the
User guide on how a Skipfile should be laid out.
--trim-path-prefix [TRIM_PATH_PREFIX [TRIM_PATH_PREFIX ...]]
Removes leading path from files which will be printed.
For instance if you analyze files
'/home/jsmith/my_proj/x.cpp' and
'/home/jsmith/my_proj/y.cpp', but would prefer to have
them displayed as 'my_proj/x.cpp' and 'my_proj/y.cpp'
in the web/CLI interface, invoke CodeChecker with '--
trim-path-prefix "/home/jsmith/"'.If multiple prefixes
is given, the longest match will be removed. You may
also use Unix shell-like wildcards (e.g.
'/*/jsmith/').
--review-status [REVIEW_STATUS [REVIEW_STATUS ...]]
Filter results by review statuses. Valid values are:
confirmed, false_positive, intentional, suppress,
unreviewed (default: ['confirmed', 'unreviewed'])
--verbose {info,debug_analyzer,debug}
Set verbosity level.
export arguments:
-e {html,json,codeclimate,gerrit,baseline}, --export {html,json,codeclimate,gerrit,baseline}
Specify extra output format type.
'codeclimate' format can be used for Code Climate and
for GitLab integration. For more information see:
https://github.com/codeclimate/platform/blob/master/spec/analyzers/SPEC.md#data-types
'baseline' output can be used to integrate CodeChecker
into your local workflow without using a CodeChecker
server. For more information see our usage guide.
(default: None)
-o OUTPUT_PATH, --output OUTPUT_PATH
Store the output in the given file/folder. Note:
baseline files must have extension '.baseline'.
Environment variables
------------------------------------------------
CC_CHANGED_FILES Path of changed files json from Gerrit. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
CC_REPO_DIR Root directory of the sources, i.e. the directory
where the repository was cloned. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
CC_REPORT_URL URL where the report can be found. Use it when
generating gerrit output.
Exit status
------------------------------------------------
0 - No report
1 - CodeChecker error
2 - At least one report emitted by an analyzer
For example, if the analysis was run like:
CodeChecker analyze ../codechecker_myProject_build.log -o my_pliststhen the results of the analysis can be printed with
CodeChecker parse ./my_plistsLet's assume that we have the following source file:
#define DIV(x, y) x / y
int foo(int p) {
// codechecker_confirmed [core.DivideZero] This is a bug.
return DIV(1, p);
}
int main() {
return foo(0);
}If we analyze this source file with Clang Static Analyzer and we call the
CodeChecker parse command with json output it will generate an output
similar to this one:
{
"version": 1,
"reports": [
{
"analyzer_result_file_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/reports/main.cpp_clangsa_13e0fcf9c1bae0de6da3cb3d0bf1f330.plist",
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 5,
"column": 12,
"message": "Division by zero",
"checker_name": "core.DivideZero",
"severity": "HIGH",
"report_hash": "7d5ccfef806a23b016a52d0df8f1f5d8",
"analyzer_name": "clangsa",
"category": "Logic error",
"type": null,
"source_code_comments": [
{
"checkers": [ "core.DivideZero" ],
"message": "This is a bug.",
"status": "confirmed",
"line": " // codechecker_confirmed [core.DivideZero] This is a bug.\n"
}
],
"review_status": "confirmed",
"bug_path_events": [
{
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 9,
"column": 14,
"message": "Passing the value 0 via 1st parameter 'p'",
"range": {
"start_line": 9,
"start_col": 14,
"end_line": 9,
"end_col": 14
}
},
{
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 9,
"column": 10,
"message": "Calling 'foo'",
"range": {
"start_line": 9,
"start_col": 10,
"end_line": 9,
"end_col": 10
}
},
{
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 3,
"column": 1,
"message": "Entered call from 'main'",
"range": {
"start_line": 3,
"start_col": 1,
"end_line": 3,
"end_col": 1
}
},
{
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 5,
"column": 12,
"message": "Division by zero",
"range": {
"start_line": 5,
"start_col": 12,
"end_line": 5,
"end_col": 12
}
}
],
"bug_path_positions": [
{
"range": {
"start_line": 9,
"start_col": 3,
"end_line": 9,
"end_col": 8
},
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
}
},
{
"range": {
"start_line": 9,
"start_col": 14,
"end_line": 9,
"end_col": 14
},
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
}
}
],
"notes": [],
"macro_expansions": [
{
"name": "DIV",
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 5,
"column": 10,
"message": "1 / p",
"range": {
"start_line": 5,
"start_col": 10,
"end_line": 5,
"end_col": 10
}
}
]
}
]
}version(number): version number. If the format of the JSON output will change this value will be incremented too. Currently supported values:1.reports(list): list of Report objects.
file(File): file where the report was found in. For more information see.line(number): line number.column(number): column number.message(str): message reported by the checker.checker_name(str): identifier of the rule (checker) that was evaluated to produce the result.severity(str | null): CodeChecker severity level (optional). Possible values are:CRITICAL,HIGH,MEDIUM,LOW,STYLE,UNSPECIFIED.report_hash(str | null): bug identifier hash (optional).analyzer_name(str | null): analyzer name which reported the bug (optional).analyzer_result_file_path(str | null): analyzer result file path where the report comes from (optional).category(str | null): report category such as 'Logic error', 'Code clone' etc. (optional)type(str): report type such as 'Division by zero', 'Dereference of null pointer', etc. (optional).source_code_comments(list): list of CodeChecker source code comments. For more information see.review_status(str): CodeChecker review status (default: 'unreviewed').bug_path_events(list[BugPathEvent]): list of bug path events. These events will be shown as bug steps on the UI and CLI (e.g.:CodeChecker parse --print-steps). For more information see.bug_path_positions(list): list of bug report points. These positions will be used by the UI and if given, the UI will connect them with arrows. For more information see.notes(list[BugPathEvent]): list of notes. These events will be shown on the UI and CLI (e.g.:CodeChecker parse --print-steps) separated from bug steps and will hold useful information to understand the report. For more information see.macro_expansions(list): list of macro expansions. These events will be shown on the UI and CLI (e.g.:CodeChecker parse --print-steps) separated from bug steps and will hold useful information to understand macros in the bug step. For more information see.
{
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
}id(str): unique identifier of the file object. Most of the cases it equals withoriginal_path.path(str): returns the trimmed version of the file path if leading paths are removed previously (--trim-path-prefixoption). Otherwise it will return the same value as theoriginal_path.original_path(str): original file path. Trimming the file path will not modify this value.
{
"start_line": 8,
"start_col": 14,
"end_line": 8,
"end_col": 14
}start_line(number): start line number.start_col(number): start column number.end_line(number): end line number.end_col(number): end column number.
{
"checkers": [ "core.DivideZero" ],
"message": "This is a bug.",
"status": "confirmed",
"line": " // codechecker_confirmed [core.DivideZero] This is a bug.\n"
}checkers(list[str]): list of checker names from the source code comment.allis a special checker name and it indicates that the source code comment is related to all results.message(str): source code comment message which will be shown on the UI after storage.status(str): status of the source code comment. Possible values:unreviewed,suppress,false_positive,intentional,confirmed.line(str): full line of the source code comment.
For more information read.
{
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 8,
"column": 14,
"message": "Passing the value 0 via 1st parameter 'p'",
"range": {
"start_line": 8,
"start_col": 14,
"end_line": 8,
"end_col": 14
}
}file(File): file where the event was found in. For more information see.line(number): line number.column(number): column number.message(str): bug path event message.range(Range): more precise information about event location (optional). For more information see.
{
"range": {
"start_line": 8,
"start_col": 3,
"end_line": 8,
"end_col": 8
},
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
}file(File): file where the position can be found in. For more information see.range(Range): information about bug path position. For more information see.
{
"name": "DIV",
"file": {
"id": "/home/username/dummy/simple/main.cpp",
"path": "projects/dummy/main.cpp",
"original_path": "/home/username/projects/dummy/main.cpp"
},
"line": 5,
"column": 10,
"message": "1 / p",
"range": {
"start_line": 5,
"start_col": 10,
"end_line": 5,
"end_col": 10
}
}name(str): macro name which will be expanded.- Same fields as
BugPathEventtype:
ClangTidy is able to provide suggestions on automatic fixes of reported issues.
For example there is a ClangTidy checker which suggests using
collection.empty() instead of collection.size() != 0 expression. These
simple changes can be applied directy in the source code. CodeChecker fixit
command handles these automatic fixes.
$ CodeChecker fixit --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker fixit [-h] [-l]
[--checker-name [CHECKER_NAME [CHECKER_NAME...]]]
[--file [FILE [FILE ...]]]
[--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}]
folder [folder ...]
Some analyzers may suggest some automatic bugfixes. Most of the times these are
style issues which can be fixed easily. This command handles the listing and
application of these automatic fixes.
Besides the provided filter options you can pipe the JSON format output of
"CodeChecker cmd diff" command to filter automatic fixes only on new reports:
CodeChecker cmd diff -b dir1 -n dir2 -o json --new | CodeChecker fixit dir2
positional arguments:
folder The analysis result folder(s) containing analysis
results and fixits which should be applied.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l, --list List the available automatic fixes.
-i, --interactive Interactive selection of fixits to apply. Fixit items
are enumerated one by one and you may choose which
ones are to be applied. (default: False)
--checker-name [CHECKER_NAME [CHECKER_NAME ...]]
Filter results by checker names. The checker name can
contain multiple * quantifiers which matches any number
of characters (zero or more). So for example
"*DeadStores" will match "deadcode.DeadStores".
(default: [])
--file [FILE_PATH [FILE_PATH ...]]
Filter results by file path. The file path can contain
multiple * quantifiers which matches any number of
characters (zero or more). So if you have /a/x.cpp and
/a/y.cpp then "/a/*.cpp" selects both. (default: [])
--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}
Set verbosity level.
List the checkers available in the installed analyzers which can be used when performing an analysis.
By default, CodeChecker checkers will list all checkers, one per each row,
providing a quick overview on which checkers are available in the analyzers.
$ CodeChecker checkers --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker checkers [-h] [--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]]
[--details] [--label LABEL [LABEL ...]]
[--profile {PROFILE/list}]
[-o {rows,table,csv,json}]
[--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}]
Get the list of checkers available and their enabled status in the supported
analyzers.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--analyzers ANALYZER [ANALYZER ...]
Show checkers only from the analyzers specified.
Currently supported analyzers are: clangsa, clang-
tidy.
--details Show details about the checker, such as status,
checker name, analyzer name, severity, guidelines and
description. Status shows if the checker is enabled
besides the given labels. If the labels don't trigger
a checker then the status is determined by the
analyzer tool.
--label [LABEL] Filter checkers that are attached the given label. The
format of a label is <label>:<value>. If no argument
is given then available labels are listed. If only
<label> is given then available values are listed.
--profile [PROFILE] List checkers enabled by the selected profile. If no
argument is given then available profiles are listed.
--guideline [GUIDELINE]
List checkers that report on a specific guideline.
Without additional parameter, the available guidelines
and their corresponding rules will be listed.
--severity [SEVERITY]
List checkers with the given severity. Make sure to
indicate severity in capitals (e.g. HIGH, MEDIUM,
etc.) If no argument is given then available
severities are listed.
--checker-config Show checker configuration options for all
existing checkers supported by the analyzer.
These can be given to 'CodeChecker analyze
--checker-config'.
-o {rows,table,csv,json}, --output {rows,table,csv,json}
The format to list the applicable checkers as.
(default: rows)
--verbose {info,debug,debug_analyzer}
Set verbosity level.
The list of checkers that are enabled or disabled by default can be edited by
editing "profile:default" labels in the file '{}'.
Example scenario: List checkers by labels
-----------------------------------------
List checkers in "sensitive" profile:
CodeChecker checkers --label profile:sensitive
CodeChecker checkers --profile sensitive
List checkers in "HIGH" severity:
CodeChecker checkers --label severity:HIGH
CodeChecker checkers --severity HIGH
List checkers covering str34-c SEI-CERT rule:
CodeChecker checkers --label sei-cert:str-34-c
CodeChecker checkers --guideline sei-cert:str34-c
List checkers covering all SEI-CERT rules:
CodeChecker checkers --label guideline:sei-cert
CodeChecker checkers --guideline sei-cert
List available profiles, guidelines and severities:
CodeChecker checkers --profile
CodeChecker checkers --guideline
CodeChecker checkers --severity
List labels and their available values:
CodeChecker checkers --label
CodeChecker checkers --label severity
A detailed view of the available checkers is available via --details. In the
detailed view, checker status, severity and description (if available) is
also printed.
A machine-readable csv or json output can be generated by supplying the
--output csv or --output json argument.
The default list of enabled and disabled checkers can be altered by editing
config files in {INSTALL_DIR}/config/labels. Note, that this directory is
overwritten when the package is reinstalled!
There are some coding guidelines which contain best practices on avoiding
common programming mistakes
([https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines](C++ Core Guidelines),
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/seccode/SEI+CERT+Coding+Standards, etc.)
Many of these guideline rules can be checked by static analyzer tools. The
detailed output of CodeChecker checkers command contains information about
which checkers cover certain guideline rules. This mapping is given in the
config files of <package>/config/labels directory.
List the available and supported analyzers installed on the system. This command can be used to retrieve the to-be-used analyzers' install path and version information.
By default, this command only lists the names of the available analyzers (with respect to the environment CodeChecker is run in).
$ CodeChecker analyzers --help (click to expand)
usage: CodeChecker analyzers [-h] [--all] [--details]
[--dump-config {clang-tidy,clangsa}]
[--analyzer-config {clang-tidy,clangsa}]
[-o {rows,table,csv,json}]
[--verbose {info,debug_analyzer,debug}]
Get the list of available and supported analyzers, querying their version and
actual binary executed.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--all Show all supported analyzers, not just the available
ones.
--details Show details about the analyzers, not just their
names.
--dump-config {clang-tidy,clangsa}
Dump the available checker options for the given
analyzer to the standard output. Currently only clang-
tidy supports this option. The output can be
redirected to a file named .clang-tidy. If this file
is placed to the project directory then the options
are applied to the files under that directory. This
config file can also be provided via 'CodeChecker
analyze' and 'CodeChecker check' commands. (default:
None)
--analyzer-config {clang-tidy,clangsa}
Show analyzer configuration options. These can be
given to 'CodeChecker analyze --analyzer-config'.
-o {rows,table,csv,json}, --output {rows,table,csv,json}
Specify the format of the output list. (default: rows)
--verbose {info,debug_analyzer,debug}
Set verbosity level.
A detailed view of the available analyzers is available via --details. In the
detailed view, version string and install path is also printed.
A machine-readable csv or json output can be generated by supplying the
--output csv or --output json argument.
Clang and/or Clang-Tidy must be available on your system before you can
run analysis on a project. CodeChecker automatically detects and uses the
latest available version in your PATH.
If you wish to use a custom clang or clang-tidy binary, e.g. because you
intend to use a specific version or a specific build, you need to configure
the installed CodeChecker package to use the appropriate binaries. Please edit
the configuration file
~/codechecker/build/CodeChecker/config/package_layout.json. In the
runtime/analyzers section, you must set the values, as shown below, to the
binaries you intend to use.
"analyzers" : {
"clangsa" : "/path/to/clang/bin/clang-8",
"clang-tidy" : "/path/to/clang/bin/clang-tidy-8"
},You can set the CC_ANALYZERS_FROM_PATH environment variable before running a
CodeChecker command to yes or 1 to enforce taking the analyzers from the
PATH instead of the given binaries. If this option is set you can also
configure the plugin directory of the Clang Static Analyzer by using the
CC_CLANGSA_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable.
Make sure that the required include paths are at the right place!
Clang based tools search by default for
builtin-includes
in a path relative to the tool binary.
$(dirname /path/to/tool)/../lib/clang/8.0.0/include
Users can categorize CodeChecker reports by setting their review status. A report can be false positive or it can also indicate a confirmed bug. Sometimes a bug is intentional in a test code. Developers can review the reports and assign such a status accordingly with a short comment message. A report is unreviewed by default.
The review status is not only a stateless indication of a report, but takes effect in situations when CodeChecker needs to determine the set of outstanding bugs. For example, a report with intentional or false positive detection status is not considered outstanding, because the analyzed project's developers don't need to worry about them.
Source code comments can be used in the source files to change the review status of a specific report found in a particular line of code. Source code comments should be above the line where the defect was found, and no empty lines are allowed between the line with the bug and the source code comment.
Comment lines staring with // or C style /**/ comments are both supported.
Watch out for the comment format!
The source code comment has the following format:
// codechecker_<comment type> [<checker name>] commentSeveral source code comment types are allowed:
codechecker_suppress: Sets the review status to false positive. These reports are not considered outstanding. The limitations of analyzers may cause false positive reports, these can be categorized by this status value.codechecker_false_positive: Same ascodechecker_suppress.codechecker_intentional: Sets the review status to intentional. These reports are not considered outstanding. For example a bug may be intentional in a test code.codechecker_confirmed: Sets the review status to confirmed. This is an indication for developers to deal with this report. Such a report is considered outstanding.
You can read more about review status here
void test() {
int x;
// codechecker_confirmed [deadcode.DeadStores] suppress deadcode
x = 1; // warn
}There is no need to specify the whole checker name in the source code comment
like deadcode.DeadStores, because it will not be resilient to package name
changes. You are able to specify only a substring of the checker name for the
source code comment:
void test() {
int x;
// codechecker_confirmed [DeadStores] suppress deadcode
x = 1; // warn
}void test() {
int x;
// codechecker_false_positive [all] suppress all checker results
x = 1; // warn
}void test() {
int x;
/* codechecker_false_positive [all] suppress all checker results */
x = 1; // warn
}void test() {
int x;
// codechecker_suppress [all] suppress all
// checker resuls
// with a long
// comment
x = 1; // warn
}void test() {
int x;
/* codechecker_suppress [all] suppress all
checker resuls
with a long
comment */
x = 1; // warn
}void test() {
int x;
/*
codechecker_suppress [all] suppress all
checker resuls
with a long
comment
*/
x = 1; // warn
}You can change multiple checker reports with a single source code comment:
void test() {
// codechecker_confirmed [clang-diagnostic-division-by-zero, core.DivideZero] These are real problems.
int x = 1 / 0;
}The limitation of this format is that you can't use separate status or message for checkers. To solve this problem you can use one of the following formats:
void test_simple() {
// codechecker_confirmed [clang-diagnostic-division-by-zero, core.DivideZero] This is a real bug.
// codechecker_intentional [clang-diagnostic-unused-variable] This is not a bug.
int x = 1 / 0;
}
void test_simple() {
/**
* codechecker_intentional [core.DivideZero] This is a real bug.
* codechecker_confirmed [clang-diagnostic-unused-variable] This is not a bug.
*/
int x = 1 / 0;
}WARNING: using multiple source code comments for the same checker is not supported and will give you an error:
void testError1() {
// codechecker_confirmed [clang-diagnostic-unused-variable] These are real problems.
// codechecker_intentional [clang-diagnostic-unused-variable] This is not a bug.
int x = 1 / 0;
}
void testError2() {
// codechecker_confirmed [all] These are real problems.
// codechecker_intentional [clang-diagnostic-unused-variable] This is not a bug.
int x = 1 / 0;
}Review status can be configured by a config file in YAML format. This config file has to represent a list of review status settings:
$version: 1
rules:
- filters:
filepath: /path/to/project/test/*
checker_name: core.DivideZero
actions:
review_status: intentional
reason: Division by zero in test files is automatically intentional.
- filters:
filepath: /path/to/project/important/module/*
actions:
review_status: confirmed
reason: All reports in this module should be investigated.
- filters:
filepath: "*/project/test/*"
actions:
review_status: suppress
reason: If a filter starts with asterix, then it should be quoted due to YAML format.
- filters:
report_hash: b85851b34789e35c6acfa1a4aaf65382
actions:
review_status: false_positive
reason: This report is false positive.The review settings rules have two componetes: filters and actions. A rule
is applied for every report that match the filter fields. The following filter
options are available:
filepath(optional): A glob to a path where the given review status is applied. A https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html is a path that may contain shell-style wildcards:*substitutes zero or more characters,?substitutes exactly one character. This filter option is applied on the full path of a source file, even if--trim-path-prefixflag is used later.checker_name(optional): Set the review status for only these checkers' reports.report_hash(optional): Set the review status for only the reports having this report hash. A prefix match is applied on report hashes, so it is enough to provide the beginning of a hash. Make sure to use a quite long prefix so it covers one specific report.
The following actions are available:
review_status: The review status to set.reason(optional): A comment message that describes the reason of the setting.
If none of the filter options is provided, then that setting is not applied on any report.