Extra Clang Tools 12.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes¶

Introduction
What’s New in Extra Clang Tools 12.0.0?

Written by the LLVM Team

Warning

These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Extra Clang Tools 12 release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.

Introduction ¶

This document contains the release notes for the Extra Clang Tools, part of the Clang release 12.0.0. 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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New altera module.

Includes checks related to OpenCL for FPGA coding guidelines, based on the Altera SDK for OpenCL: Best Practices Guide.

New checks ¶

New altera-struct-pack-align check.

Finds structs that are inefficiently packed or aligned, and recommends packing and/or aligning of said structs as needed.
New bugprone-misplaced-pointer-arithmetic-in-alloc check.
New bugprone-redundant-branch-condition check.

Finds condition variables in nested if statements that were also checked in the outer if statement and were not changed.

Changes in existing checks ¶

Improved readability-identifier-naming check.

Added an option GetConfigPerFile to support including files which use different naming styles.

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