From ac60a41a7ed6045e96c58310402a279b55f6349e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Marjam=C3=A4ki?= <danielm77@spray.se>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:08:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Writing rules: use 'cppcheck --rule=.+' instead of 'cppcheck
 --debug' to see simplified code

---
 man/writing-rules.docbook | 23 +++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/writing-rules.docbook b/man/writing-rules.docbook
index deb2ba782..3abb2ec12 100644
--- a/man/writing-rules.docbook
+++ b/man/writing-rules.docbook
@@ -140,24 +140,19 @@
         free(p);
 }</programlisting>
 
-      <para>To see the simplified code use <literal>cppcheck --debug
-      dealloc.cpp</literal>.</para>
+      <para>To see the simplified code you can use <literal>cppcheck
+      --rule=".+" dealloc.cpp</literal>:</para>
 
-      <programlisting>##file dealloc.cpp
-1: void f ( ) {
-2: if ( p ) {
-3: free ( p ) ; }
-4: }</programlisting>
+      <programlisting>$ ./cppcheck --rule=".+" dealloc.cpp 
+Checking dealloc.cpp...
+[dealloc.cpp:1]: (style) found ' void f ( ) { if ( p ) { free ( p ) ; } }'</programlisting>
 
-      <para>In the <literal>--debug</literal> output there are line feeds and
-      line numbers. But the newlines and line numbers are only there to make
-      the output easier to read. The real simplified code is written on a
-      single line:</para>
+      <para>In short, the simplified code is:</para>
 
-      <programlisting>void f ( ) { if ( p ) { free ( p ) ; } }</programlisting>
+      <programlisting> void f ( ) { if ( p ) { free ( p ) ; } }</programlisting>
 
-      <para>Now we can use <literal>cppcheck --rule</literal> to develop a
-      regular expression.</para>
+      <para>Now that the simplified code is known we can create a regular
+      expression:</para>
 
       <programlisting>$ cppcheck --rule="if \( p \) { free \( p \) ; }" dealloc.cpp
 Checking dealloc.cpp...