Typically with
```
int F(int *f);
void F2(int *a, int *b) {
int c = *a;
F(a); // modifies *a
if (b && c != *a) {}
}
```
we would get the following FP:
```
[test.cpp:3] -> [test.cpp:5]: (style) The comparison 'c != *a' is always false because 'c' and '*a' represent the same value.\n
```
I guess it boils down to isSameExpression only checking that the
expression is the same (in the above case, "*a" and "*a" are indeed the
same), but there's not real check on the values.
So the patch here is a bit hackish, and we still have false negatives in
cases with dereferenced pointers.
* Refactor isNullOperand out of FwdAnalysis
* Improve isNullOperand
* Fix redundantAssignment FP with unsigned zero
* isNullValue check number
* Enhance isNullOperand to handle c++ casts
Also handle cast of NULL.
* Add cases for 9356
* 9356: Prevent false positive when passing non-const reference to member constructor
This workarounds false positives 'Parameter can be declared with const [constParameter]'
when said parameter is used in constructor call. It assume the
constructor call might change the parameter (without any checks.
The drawback is that we have false negative, in cases where we could
check the constructor actually takes a const reference, or a copied by
value parameter.
* Add todo comment in isVariableMutableInInitializer
* cppcheck.cpp: Check for JSON error when parsing addon .json files
This fixes that errors in JSON files given via `--addon=*.json` are
silently ignored and maybe only a part of the JSON file is used.
Now the error message which picojson can return is checked and a
corresponding error message is returned again by getAddonInfo().
* naming.json: Fix missing comma
* CLI: Fix naming violations detected by addon naming.py via naming.json
* Addon naming: Add argument for validating names of constants
* LIB: Rename functions/variables so they are valid, loosen naming rules
* GUI: Fix naming violations
Previously, cppcheck discarded the `extern "C"` specifier. This patch modifies cppcheck to parse each as a Scope in the symbol database, then uses that scope to avoid false positives when making recommendations about changing a function argument to be a reference (since variable references is a C++ feature, unavailable in C, and thus unavailable in `extern "C"`).
* make ellipsis ... a single token
Using cppcheck -E to preprocess code with ellipsis produces output that
can't be compiled because ... is split into 3 tokens.
* try to fix addon