[cfe-dev] [clang-tidy] Dealing with check names

Piotr Padlewski via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Dec 13 04:45:35 PST 2016


2016-12-13 13:17 GMT+01:00 Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons at gmail.com>:

> On 12 December 2016 at 21:56, Piotr Padlewski via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Is LLVM style guide so special that no one can use it outside of LLVM?
> LLVM
> > specific checks would still be visible and would do the same thing, but
> they
> > would be links to more generic checks that people outside could use.
> > Or maybe you prefer to put iit-namespace-comment,
> > myawesomecompany-namespace-comment etc. LLVM is not the only one project
> > that uses namespace comments.
>
> We already have google-readability-namespace-comments and
> llvm-namespace-comment checks, that configure the same check in
> different ways.
>
> I don't know why Google don't use .clang-tidy to configure generic
> checks how they want them.
>
> I don't mind having google/llvm specific checks in list (as links),
because google is the biggest contributor to clang-tidy and parts of google
coding standard are uses outside of google too.



> --
> Malcolm Parsons
>
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