[cfe-dev] clang-tidy and 3.7 release notes

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Alexander Kornienko <alexfh at google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> I figured in Clang's release notes, docs/ReleaseNotes.rst on the 3.7
>> branch:
>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=log
>>
>> If you don't want to check out the branch, you can also just send me
>> some text and I'll commit it.
>
>
>
> OK, clang-tidy summary of changes from 3.6.2 final:
>
> Added new checks:
>   * google-global-names-in-headers: flag global namespace pollution in
> header files.
>   * misc-assert-side-effect: detects `assert()` conditions with side effects
> which can cause different behavior in debug / release builds.
>   * misc-assign-operator-signature: finds declarations of assign operators
> with the wrong return and/or argument types.
>   * misc-inaccurate-erase: warns when some elements of a container are not
> removed due to using the `erase()` algorithm incorrectly.
>   * misc-inefficient-algorithm: warns on inefficient use of STL algorithms
> on associative containers.
>   * misc-macro-parentheses: finds macros that can have unexpected behavior
> due to missing parentheses.
>   * misc-macro-repeated-side-effects: checks for repeated argument with side
> effects in macros.
>   * misc-noexcept-move-constructor: flags user-defined move constructors and
> assignment operators not marked with `noexcept` or marked with
> `noexcept(expr)` where `expr` evaluates to `false` (but is not a `false`
> literal itself).
>   * misc-static-assert: replaces `assert()` with `static_assert()` if the
> condition is evaluatable at compile time.
>   * readability-container-size-empty: checks whether a call to the `size()`
> method can be replaced with a call to `empty()`.
>   * readability-else-after-return: flags conditional statements having the
> `else` branch, when the `true` branch has a `return` as the last statement.
>   * readability-redundant-string-cstr: finds unnecessary calls to
> `std::string::c_str()`.
>   * readability-shrink-to-fit: replaces copy and swap tricks on shrinkable
> containers with the `shrink_to_fit()` method call.
>   * readability-simplify-boolean-expr: looks for boolean expressions
> involving boolean constants and simplifies them to use the appropriate
> boolean expression directly (`if (x == true) ... -> if (x)`, etc.)


Many thanks! r245328.

 - Hans