Extra Clang Tools 4.0.0 Release Notes¶
Written by the LLVM Team
Introduction¶
This document contains the release notes for the Extra Clang Tools, part of the Clang release 4.0.0. Here we describe the status of the Extra Clang Tools in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.
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What’s New in Extra Clang Tools 4.0.0?¶
Some of the major new features and improvements to Extra Clang Tools are listed here.
Improvements to clang-tidy¶
New cppcoreguidelines-slicing check
Flags slicing of member variables or vtable.
New cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions check
Flags classes where some, but not all, special member functions are user-defined.
The UseCERTSemantics option for the misc-move-constructor-init check has been removed as it duplicated the modernize-pass-by-value check.
New misc-move-forwarding-reference check
Warns when std::move is applied to a forwarding reference instead of std::forward.
misc-pointer-and-integral-operation check was removed.
New misc-string-compare check
Warns about using compare to test for string equality or inequality.
New misc-use-after-move check
Warns if an object is used after it has been moved, without an intervening reinitialization.
New cppcoreguidelines-no-malloc check warns if C-style memory management is used and suggests the use of RAII.
modernize-make-unique and modernize-make-shared now handle calls to the smart pointer’s reset() method.
The modernize-pass-by-value check now has a ValuesOnly option to only warn about parameters that are passed by value but not moved.
The modernize-use-auto check now warns about variable declarations that are initialized with a cast, or by calling a templated function that behaves as a cast.
The modernize-use-default check has been renamed to modernize-use-equals-default.
New modernize-use-default-member-init check
Converts a default constructor’s member initializers into default member initializers. Removes member initializers that are the same as a default member initializer.
New modernize-use-equals-delete check
Adds = delete to unimplemented private special member functions.
New modernize-use-transparent-functors check
Replaces uses of non-transparent functors with transparent ones where applicable.
New mpi-buffer-deref check
Flags buffers which are insufficiently dereferenced when passed to an MPI function call.
New mpi-type-mismatch check
Flags MPI function calls with a buffer type and MPI data type mismatch.
New performance-inefficient-string-concatenation check
Warns about the performance overhead arising from concatenating strings using the operator+, instead of operator+=.
New performance-type-promotion-in-math-fn check
Replaces uses of C-style standard math functions with double parameters and float arguments with an equivalent function that takes a float parameter.
readability-container-size-empty check supports arbitrary containers with with suitable empty() and size() methods.
New readability-misplaced-array-index check
Warns when there is array index before the [] instead of inside it.
New readability-non-const-parameter check
Flags function parameters of a pointer type that could be changed to point to a constant type instead.
New readability-redundant-declaration check
Finds redundant variable and function declarations.
New readability-redundant-function-ptr-dereference check
Finds redundant function pointer dereferences.
New readability-redundant-member-init check
Flags member initializations that are unnecessary because the same default constructor would be called if they were not present.
The readability-redundant-string-cstr check now warns about redundant calls to data() too.
The google-explicit-constructor check now warns about conversion operators not marked explicit.
Fixed bugs:
- modernize-make-unique and modernize-make-shared Calling make_{unique|shared} from within a member function of a type with a private or protected constructor would be ill-formed.
Improvements to include-fixer¶
- Emacs integration was added.