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<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Critical" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9Q3JpdGljYWx9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body">The cxx plugin does not run any static analysis tools, thus all reports must be generated externally</td></tr></table><p>Here is a quick guide how to generate the reports using external tools</p><h1>cppcheck</h1><p>Make sure to pass all include directories as otherwise the analysis will be incomplete. Caveat: cppcheck writes the output to the standard error.</p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" data-macro-parameters="language=bash" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGU6bGFuZ3VhZ2U9YmFzaH0&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>cppcheck -v --enable=all --xml -I&lt;include directory> &lt;sources> 2> report.xml</pre></td></tr></table><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Rule Extensions" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9UnVsZSBFeHRlbnNpb25zfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Extension of cppcheck rules is possible by using [sonar instal dir]/<strong>extensions/rules/cppcheck</strong>. See <a class="confluence-link" href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=230398146" data-linked-resource-id="230398146" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Extending Rules in C++ Analysers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Extending Rules in C++ Analysers</a> on how to create the rules </p></td></tr></table><h2>Updated Rules</h2><table class="confluenceTable"><tbody><tr><th class="confluenceTh">Version</th><th class="confluenceTh">Rules</th></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd">1.58</td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">&lt;rule&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  &lt;key&gt;redundantCopy&lt;/key&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  &lt;configkey&gt;redundantCopy&lt;/configkey&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  &lt;name&gt;Buffer 'var' is being written before its old content has been used&lt;/name&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  &lt;description&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">    Buffer 'var' is being written before its old content has been used. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  &lt;/description&gt; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">&lt;/rule&gt;</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><h1>Valgrind</h1><p>Just tell valgrind to generate XML output. The 'tool' option isn't necessary as 'memcheck' is the default one. Make sure the binaries contain debug info.</p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>valgrind --xml=yes --xml-file=report.xml &lt;program> &lt;arguments>

</pre></td></tr></table><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Rule Extensions" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9UnVsZSBFeHRlbnNpb25zfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Extension of valgrind rules is possible by using <span>[sonar instal dir]/</span><strong>extensions/rules/valgrind</strong>. See <a class="confluence-link" href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=230398146" data-linked-resource-id="230398146" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Extending Rules in C++ Analysers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Extending Rules in C++ Analysers</a> on how to create the rules </p></td></tr></table><h1>Vera++</h1><p>The generation of vera++ reports is somewhat more tricky. We find all the files we want to be analysed, pipe this list into vera++ and pipe its output into a Perl script which finally generates the required XML. </p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>find &lt;path> -regex ".*\.cc\|.*\.hh" | vera++ - -showrules -nodup |&amp; vera++Report2checkstyleReport.perl > report.xml</pre></td></tr></table><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Rule Extensions" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9UnVsZSBFeHRlbnNpb25zfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Extension of vera++ rules is possible by using <span>[sonar instal dir]/</span><strong>extensions/rules/vera++</strong>. See <a class="confluence-link" href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=230398146" data-linked-resource-id="230398146" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Extending Rules in C++ Analysers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Extending Rules in C++ Analysers</a> on how to create the rules</p></td></tr></table><h1>RATS</h1><p> </p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>rats -w 3 --xml &lt;sources> > report.xml</pre></td></tr></table><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Rule Extensions" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9UnVsZSBFeHRlbnNpb25zfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Extension of rats rules is possible by using <span>[sonar instal dir]/</span><strong>extensions/rules/rats</strong>. See <a class="confluence-link" href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=230398146" data-linked-resource-id="230398146" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Extending Rules in C++ Analysers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Extending Rules in C++ Analysers</a> on how to create the rules</p></td></tr></table><p><span style="font-size: 1.8em;"><br /></span></p><h1>Pc-Lint</h1><p>Please refer to product page (<a href="http://www.gimpel.com/html/pcl.htm">Official Site</a>)</p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm99&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Rules for this tool are disabled by default, so they need to be enabled in the relevant quality profile before they can be imported into sonar</p></td></tr></table><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Rule Extensions" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9UnVsZSBFeHRlbnNpb25zfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p>Extension of pclint rules is possible by using <span>[sonar instal dir]/</span><strong>extensions/rules/pclint</strong>. See <a class="confluence-link" href="/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=230398146" data-linked-resource-id="230398146" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Extending Rules in C++ Analysers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Extending Rules in C++ Analysers</a> on how to create the rules </p></td></tr></table>