cppcheck/addons
Georgy Komarov d977761e76 addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395)
* addons: Reduce memory consumption

Parse dump files incrementaly using ElementTree.iterparse. Clean unused
resources during parsing.  This method is explained in following
article: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-hiperfparse/

Memory consumption was reduced about 30% (measured with mprof),
execution time increased about 5% (measured with time utility).
More description available in PR.

* Switch to lxml and update iterparse routines

Use lxml module instead default xml.etree. Lxml provides convenient
wrappers around iterparse method that accepts `tag` argument. That
easer incremental parsing routines to select specific tags from roottree
like `dump` and `dumps`.

Element.clear() method was replaced by `lxml_clean` because lxml
keeps additional information to nodes that should be removed.

Added note about large consumption RAM on large dump files.
This commit doesn't solve this problem completely, but provides a way
to improve current parser to add incremental Configuration serialization
later.

* Working on iterative parser

* Added iterative Configurations parser

* fix

* Fix varlist iteration

* make sure that standards node was loaded
2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
..
doc Addons: Add README (#2047) 2019-07-28 07:51:03 +02:00
test misra.py: Handle essential type categories for ternary operations (#2455) 2019-12-21 07:40:15 +01:00
README.md addons: fixup image in README (#2277) 2019-10-17 07:08:10 +02:00
ROS_naming.json Feature/ros naming check (#1511) 2019-01-09 18:16:51 +01:00
__init__.py misra.py: Fix up and improve load rules parser. (#1895) 2019-06-17 21:17:29 +02:00
cert.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
cppcheckdata.doxyfile Fix some typos in comments (found by codespell) 2016-11-27 11:40:42 +01:00
cppcheckdata.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
findcasts.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
misc.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
misra.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
naming.json Feature/ros naming check (#1511) 2019-01-09 18:16:51 +01:00
naming.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
namingng.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
threadsafety.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00
y2038.py addons: Reduce memory consumption (#2395) 2019-12-27 08:50:56 +01:00

README.md

Cppcheck addons

Addons are scripts that analyses Cppcheck dump files to check compatibility with secure coding standards and to locate various issues.

Supported addons

  • cert.py Checks for compliance with the safe programming standard CERT.
  • misra.py Used to verify compliance with MISRA C 2012 - a proprietary set of guidelines to avoid such questionable code, developed for embedded systems. Since this standard is proprietary, cppcheck does not display error text by specifying only the number of violated rules (for example, [c2012-21.3]). If you want to display full texts for violated rules, you will need to create a text file containing MISRA rules, which you will have to pass when calling the script with --rule-texts key. Some examples of rule texts files available in tests directory.
  • y2038.py Checks Linux system for year 2038 problem safety. This required modified environment. See complete description here.
  • threadsafety.py Analyse Cppcheck dump files to locate threadsafety issues like static local objects used by multiple threads.

Usage

Command line interface

cppcheck --addon=cert --addon=y2038 src/test.c

It is also possible to call scripts as follows:

cppcheck --dump --quiet src/test.c
python cert.py src/test.c.dump
python misra.py --rules-texts=~/misra_rules.txt src/test.c.dump

This allows you to add additional parameters when calling the script (for example, --rule-tests for misra.py). The full list of available parameters can be found by calling any script with the --help flag.

GUI

When using the graphical interface cppcheck-gui, the selection and configuration of addons is carried out on the tab Addons and tools in the project settings (Edit Project File):

Screenshot