cppcheck News

Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.17

New checks:

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

Changed interface:

• Added reduced check level. It can be activated with --check-level=reduced. You get faster analysis
  but some fewer results. The motivation is to be able to make analysis time "acceptable" for direct usage.
• Added --report-type option. Enables printing of guidelines and classifications for several coding
  standards in place of the regular error identifiers and severities.

Other:

• Removed deperecated support for builds via qmake.
• Using a handwritten rule texts file for MISRA C addon violates license and copyright terms. See the
  manual for instructions how to download a official rule texts file from MISRA.