[PATCH] D22725: [clang-tidy] Add check 'misc-replace-memcpy'

[Jonas Devlieghere via cfe-commits]

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This check emits a warning when memcpy is used and suggest replacing it with a call to std::copy. 

Using std::copy opens up the possibility of type-aware optimizations which are not possible with memcpy.  

Taken from: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22209 

https://reviews.llvm.org/D22725

Files:
  clang-tidy/misc/CMakeLists.txt
  clang-tidy/misc/MiscTidyModule.cpp
  clang-tidy/misc/ReplaceMemcpyCheck.cpp
  clang-tidy/misc/ReplaceMemcpyCheck.h
  docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst
  docs/clang-tidy/checks/misc-replace-memcpy.rst
  test/clang-tidy/misc-replace-memcpy.cpp

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