[PATCH] D36836: [clang-tidy] Implement readability-function-cognitive-complexity check

[Roman Lebedev via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

lebedev.ri added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D36836#877636, @alexfh wrote:

> > The metric is implemented as per COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY by SonarSource specification version 1.2 (19 April 2017),
>
> Err, "I did ask them, and received an answer that it is it can be implemented in clang-tidy" might not be enough.


F5372479: original_msg.txt <https://reviews.llvm.org/F5372479>

  Hello Roman,
  
  It would not, and I would be happy to be notified once done.
  
  Thanks
  
  Olivier
  
  > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:17 PM Roman Lebedev <lebedev.ri at gmail.com> wrote:
  > Hi.
  > 
  > I would like to know, what is the legal status of
  > https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf ?
  > 
  > If i (or someone else) is to implement the Specification described in
  > that paper,
  > which will produce the same results as the Cognitive Complexity in SonarSource
  > as part of some other static analyzer, for example as a LLVM's clang-tidy check,
  > would that be illegal thing to do?
  > 
  > Roman.
  -- 
  Olivier Gaudin | SonarSource
  CEO & Co-Founder
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Might not be enough?


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D36836