[clang-tidy] New feature --skip-headers, LocationFilter
- This new feature has impacts similar to --header-filter and --system-headers.
- Clang-tidy by default checks header files, reports the number of warnings found in header files but not those warning messages.
- With --header-filter, clang-tidy shows warnings in selected header files, but not system header files.
- With --system-headers, clang-tidy shows also warnings in system header files.
- With --skip-headers, clang-tidy does not check header files, and does not know or count warnings in header files. However, if --header-filter or --system-headers are used, those header files will be checked and warnings be counted and displayed.
- For users who do not need to know the number of not-shown warnings in header files, this feature saves maybe 60% to 80% of clang-tidy run-time, by skipping checks of header files. When building Android system with clang-tidy, repeated checks on commonly included header files in multiple compilation units took significant part of build time, which could be saved by this new feature.
- Note that this is not the same as PCH, which usually saves parsing time, but not semantic checks or code generation time.
- This part 1 implementation only affects the MatchFinder-based checks, not the PPCallback-based or the static analyzer checks. Follow up changes could make the other checks to skip header files and save more time.
- Add a --show-all-warnings flag. It is hidden, not shown by --help. When it is used, ClangTidyDiagnosticConsumer::checkFilters will not suppress any diagnostic message. This is useful to find tidy checks that have not yet handled the --skip-headers flag.
- Implementation Methods:
- Factor out LocationFilter in ClangTidyDiagnosticConsumer
- The skipLocation checks if a location should not be checked.
- Use simple cache of the last skipped/accepted FileID to minimize the overhead of skipLocation.
- Add a LocFilter to Tidy's MatchFinderOptions. In MatchASTVisitor::TraverseDecl and TraverseStmt, skip a sub-tree if the MatchFinderOptions has a LocFilter that decides to skip the location.
- Add an AllFileFinder for checks that need to match all source files.
- ForwardDeclarationNamespaceCheck is registered as an AllFileCheck, to avoid missing valid warnings on main source files.
- UnusedUsingDeclsCheck is registered as an AllFileCheck, to avoid incorrect warnings on main source files.
- Their diag functions call ClangTidyCheck::skipLocation to skip diagnostics on header files.
- Factor out LocationFilter in ClangTidyDiagnosticConsumer
- Tests:
- Add skip-headers*.cpp tests to show the effects of new flags.
- Add bugprone-forward-declaration-namespace-header.cpp test to show how AllFileMatchFinder-based checks can depend on header Decls.
- Add new test cases into misc-unused-using-decls.cpp.
- Extend some clang-tidy checker tests to make sure that --skip-headers skips checks/warnings in the header files: google-namespaces.cpp modernize-pass-by-value-header.cpp
- Add runs with --skip-headers in some clang-tidy checker tests to make sure that the option does not hide warnings in the main file:
- about 18 other clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/*.cpp
- Some tests were added --skip-headers=0 flag to get expected warning messages in test header files: checkers/abseil-no-internal-dependencies.cpp checkers/abseil-upgrade-duration-conversions.cpp checkers/google-namespaces.cpp infrastructure/file-filter-symlinks.cpp infrastructure/file-filter.cpp infrastructure/line-filter.cpp
- Some expected no-output lines in skip-headers-1 have FIXME, so they will pass test before the related PPCallbacks checks support the skip-headers option.