This section covers how BrowserStack Code Quality supports custom extensions for C and C++ languages. UI Scan On UI, custom extensions can be specified with Additional Options field of scan configuration page as shown below: The flag for supplying C extension is “–xc“ and for CPP is “–xcpp“.User can provide…
If any included file is not found in the source directory, cxxparser will throw a warning message which contains the location of missing include. Accuracy of the parser can be improved by providing the path to the directories which contain the missing files.
In strict mode, CXXParser uses a compilation database to parse files. Compilation database contains actual compile commands and options used to compile source files in a project which helps CXXParser in accurate parsing. Compilation database can be generated using build tools such as cmake, make, waf, scons, etc.
Embold comes with a proprietary and state-of-the-art analyser. In addition to integrating and building upon good work from the open source space, we have created our own checks and rules to discover code issues that were not sufficiently covered by other tools.
