[LLVMdev] [RFC] C++11: 'virtual' and 'override'

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:53 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

>> It might be reasonable to warn if a class has both a function marked
>> 'override' and a function that overrides but is not marked 'override'.
>> 
>> 
>> That could be useful - because it means that the author of the class is at
>> least thinking about override - but having a "coding style" warning of "I
>> always intend to use override" would still be useful.
> 
> Doug (not sure about other Clang owners) is pretty hesitant about
> implementing coding style warnings - anything with such a high false
> positive rate as to be off by default is assumed to be a non-starter
> in Clang (though perhaps things have changed in the years since I last
> tested the waters here).
> 
> And now that we have something like clang-tidy, it's perhaps less of
> an issue... we'll see.

Making it part of clang-tidy would make a lot of sense then!  Is there any plans to get clang-tidy running against the llvm/clang codebases regularly, or is it already happening?

-Chris
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