[cfe-dev] clang --analyze: how do I get more verbose diagnostics?

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Sun Nov 17 13:37:39 PST 2013


In article <E835CF96-B8CC-4541-B9F1-DA06B1B6895E at apple.com>,
    Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> writes:

> Hi, Richard. "clang --analyze" is not intended to be a usual interface for
> the analyzer, merely an invocation that higher-level tools can use. The
> correct way to run the analyzer, even on a single file, is through the
> scan-build tool, which provides HTML output that shows you the full path to
> the purported bug. (Or through Xcode, of course, if you're on a Mac.)

Thanks for pointing this out, Jordan.  I'm away from the computer
where I have clang installed at the moment.  Does the man page for
clang mention any of this where --analyze is described?  I don't think
it was.
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