Often you are only interested in the overall cognitive complexity of a
function and not every individual increment. Thus the flag
'DescribeBasicIncrements' is added. If it is set to 'true', each increment
is flagged. Otherwise, only the complexity of function with complexity
of at least the threshold are flagged.
By default 'DescribeBasisIncrements' is set to 'true', which is the original behavior of the check.
Added a new test for different flag combinations.
(The option to ignore macros which was original part of this patch will be added in another path)
Reviewed By: lebedev.ri
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96281
Currently, there is basically just one clang-tidy check to impose
some sanity limits on functions - `clang-tidy-readability-function-size`.
It is nice, allows to limit line count, total number of statements,
number of branches, number of function parameters (not counting
implicit `this`), nesting level.
However, those are simple generic metrics. It is still trivially possible
to write a function, which does not violate any of these metrics,
yet is still rather unreadable.
Thus, some additional, slightly more complicated metric is needed.
There is a well-known [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity | Cyclomatic complexity]], but certainly has its downsides.
And there is a [[ https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf | COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY by SonarSource ]], which is available for opensource on https://sonarcloud.io/.
This check checks function Cognitive Complexity metric, and flags
the functions with Cognitive Complexity exceeding the configured limit.
The default limit is `25`, same as in 'upstream'.
The metric is implemented as per [[ https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf | COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY by SonarSource ]] specification version 1.2 (19 April 2017), with two notable exceptions:
* `preprocessor conditionals` (`#ifdef`, `#if`, `#elif`, `#else`,
`#endif`) are not accounted for.
Could be done. Currently, upstream does not account for them either.
* `each method in a recursion cycle` is not accounted for.
It can't be fully implemented, because cross-translational-unit
analysis would be needed, which is not possible in clang-tidy.
Thus, at least right now, i completely avoided implementing it.
There are some further possible improvements:
* Are GNU statement expressions (`BinaryConditionalOperator`) really free?
They should probably cause nesting level increase,
and complexity level increase when they are nested within eachother.
* Microsoft SEH support
* ???
Reviewed By: aaron.ballman, JonasToth, lattner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36836
Jens Massberg