Extra Clang Tools 17.0.0git (In-Progress) Release Notes¶

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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Extra Clang Tools 17 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 17.0.0git. 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 bugprone-unsafe-functions check.

Checks for functions that have safer, more secure replacements available, or are considered deprecated due to design flaws. This check relies heavily on, but is not exclusive to, the functions from the Annex K. “Bounds-checking interfaces” of C11.
New cppcoreguidelines-avoid-capture-default-when-capturing-this check.

Warns when lambda specify a capture default and capture this.

New check aliases ¶

New alias cert-msc24-c to bugprone-unsafe-functions was added.
New alias cert-msc33-c to bugprone-unsafe-functions was added.

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