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diff --git a/docs/source/community/code_contributions.rst b/docs/source/community/code_contributions.rst index 3c8850bd..7e354a70 100644 --- a/docs/source/community/code_contributions.rst +++ b/docs/source/community/code_contributions.rst @@ -88,12 +88,7 @@ cppcheck static analyzer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can run locally ``scripts/cppcheck.sh`` that is a wrapper script around the -cppcheck utility. It is known to work with cppcheck 1.61 of Ubuntu Trusty 14.0, -since this is what is currently used on Travis-CI -(``travis/linux_gcc/before_install.sh``). -At the time of writing, this also works with cppcheck 1.72 of Ubuntu Xenial -16.04, and latest cppcheck -master. +cppcheck utility. This tool is used as part of the quality control of the code. cppcheck can have false positives. In general, it is preferable to rework the code a bit to make it more 'obvious' and avoid those false positives. When not @@ -115,9 +110,9 @@ Preliminary step: install clang. For example: :: - wget http://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-14.04.tar.xz - tar xJf clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-14.04.tar.xz - mv clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-14.04 clang+llvm-6 + wget http://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-16.04.tar.xz + tar xJf clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-16.04.tar.xz + mv clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-16.04 clang+llvm-6 Run configure under the scan-build utility of clang: |