Hello dear C and C++ users
We are glad to bring you new features and improvements.
You get much less false positives for all path-sensitive rules for both C and C++.
We improved our execution path-sensitive engine by removing most false positives that were raised on infeasible paths (logical inconsistencies in the execution path and program state).
On top of that, you get a few more rules, mostly continuing on C++20.
- S6234: “auto” should be used to store a result of functions that conventionally return an iterator
- S6223 [C++20]: Result of the standard remove algorithms should not be ignored
- S6222 [C++20]: “[[nodiscard]]” attributes on types should include explanations
- S6228 [C++20]: “std::has_single_bit” should be used to test if an integer is a power of two
Obviously, various other improvements and rule polishing were made. They are available in the release notes there and there.
All this is already available on SonarCloud.io and will be available with SonarQube 9.1 starting from Developer Edition.
Geoffray