Extra Clang Tools 20.0.0git (In-Progress) Release Notes¶

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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Extra Clang Tools 20 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 20.0.0git. 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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What’s New in Extra Clang Tools 20.0.0git?¶

Some of the major new features and improvements to Extra Clang Tools are listed here. Generic improvements to Extra Clang Tools as a whole or to its underlying infrastructure are described first, followed by tool-specific sections.

Major New Features ¶

The clang-pseudo tool is incomplete and does not have active maintainers, so it has been removed. See the RFC for more details.

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Improvements to clangd ¶

Inlay hints ¶

Added DefaultArguments Inlay Hints option.

Added Swap operands tweak for certain binary operators.

The DefineOutline tweak now handles member functions of class templates.

Improved clang-tidy’s –verify-config flag by adding support for the configuration options of the Clang Static Analyzer Checks.
Improved run-clang-tidy.py script. Fixed minor shutdown noise happening on certain platforms when interrupting the script.

New checks ¶

New bugprone-bitwise-pointer-cast check.

Warns about code that tries to cast between pointers by means of std::bit_cast or memcpy.
New bugprone-tagged-union-member-count check.

Gives warnings for tagged unions, where the number of tags is different from the number of data members inside the union.
New portability-template-virtual-member-function check.

Finds cases when an uninstantiated virtual member function in a template class causes cross-compiler incompatibility.

New check aliases ¶

New alias cert-arr39-c to bugprone-sizeof-expression was added.

Changes in existing checks ¶

Improved bugprone-casting-through-void check to suggest replacing the offending code with reinterpret_cast, to more clearly express intent.
Improved bugprone-dangling-handle check to treat std::span as a handle class.
Improved bugprone-forwarding-reference-overload check by fixing a crash when determining if an enable_if[_t] was found.
Improved bugprone-posix-return check to support integer literals as LHS and posix call as RHS of comparison.
Improved bugprone-sizeof-expression check to find suspicious usages of sizeof(), alignof(), and offsetof() when adding or subtracting from a pointer directly or when used to scale a numeric value.
Improved bugprone-unchecked-optional-access to support bsl::optional and bdlb::NullableValue from <https://github.com/bloomberg/bde>_.
Improved bugprone-unsafe-functions check to allow specifying additional functions to match.
Improved cert-flp30-c check to fix false positive that floating point variable is only used in increment expression.
Improved cppcoreguidelines-prefer-member-initializer check to avoid false positive when member initialization depends on a structured binding variable.
Fixed cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-union-access check to report a location even when the member location is not valid.
Improved misc-definitions-in-headers check by rewording the diagnostic note that suggests adding inline.
Improved misc-unconventional-assign-operator check to avoid false positive for C++23 deducing this.
Improved modernize-avoid-c-arrays check to suggest using std::span as a replacement for parameters of incomplete C array type in C++20 and std::array or std::vector before C++20.
Improved modernize-loop-convert check to fix false positive when using loop variable in initializer of lambda capture.
Improved misc-use-internal-linkage check to insert static keyword before type qualifiers such as const and volatile.
Improved modernize-min-max-use-initializer-list check by fixing a false positive when only an implicit conversion happened inside an initializer list.
Improved modernize-use-nullptr check to also recognize NULL/__null (but not 0) when used with a templated type.
Improved modernize-use-starts-ends-with check to handle two cases that can be replaced with ends_with
Improved modernize-use-std-format check to support replacing member function calls too and to only expand macros starting with PRI and __PRI from <inttypes.h> in the format string.
Improved modernize-use-std-print check to support replacing member function calls too and to only expand macros starting with PRI and __PRI from <inttypes.h> in the format string.
Improved performance-avoid-endl check to use std::endl as placeholder when lexer cannot get source text.
Improved performance-move-const-arg check to fix a crash when an argument type is declared but not defined.
Improved readability-container-contains check to let it work on any class that has a contains method. Fix some false negatives in the find() case.
Improved readability-enum-initial-value check by only issuing diagnostics for the definition of an enum, and by fixing a typo in the diagnostic.
Improved readability-implicit-bool-conversion check by adding the option UseUpperCaseLiteralSuffix to select the case of the literal suffix in fixes.
Improved readability-redundant-smartptr-get check to remove ->, when redundant get() is removed.
Improved readability-identifier-naming check to validate namespace aliases.

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