Fuchsia

Run Clang static analysis

Static analysis is a way of analyzing source code without executing it. One of its applications is to find code smells and bugs.

Fuchsia uses Clang as its compiler. Clang has several tools to analyze the code statically. Fuchsia enables a large set of useful warning messages and compiles with warnings as errors.

Prerequisites

Before you do static analysis, make sure you have the following:

  • Toolchain: You can either use the prebuilt toolchain or compile compile a toolchain. For information on compiling a toolchain, see the toolchain guide. Note: This guide assumes that you are using the prebuilt toolchain.
  • Compilation database: You need the compilation database to use clang-tidy and Clang static analyzer. It is created at the root of your build directory automatically by fx set.

Clang tidy

There is a more detailed guide available here.

Clang static analyzer

Prerequisites

Install scan-build-py:

pip install scan-build --user

You might get a warning that ~/.local/bin is not part of the PATH. Either add it to your PATH environment variable or install scan-build globally (without the --user flag).

Run

From your Fuchsia directory, run the Clang static analyzer:

analyze-build --cdb compile_commands.json --use-analyzer path/to/checkout/prebuilt/third_party/clang/linux-x64/bin/clang --output path/to/output

View the results

View the results of Clang static analyzer with Chrome:

chrome path/to/output/scan-build-date-hash/index.html

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