Previously, the only way to display the list of available checkers was
to invoke the analyzer with -analyzer-checker-help frontend flag. This
however wasn't really great from a maintainer standpoint: users came
across checkers meant strictly for development purposes that weren't to
be tinkered with, or those that were still in development. This patch
creates a clearer division in between these categories.
From now on, we'll have 3 flags to display the list checkers. These
lists are mutually exclusive and can be used in any combination (for
example to display both stable and alpha checkers).
-analyzer-checker-help: Displays the list for stable, production ready
checkers.
-analyzer-checker-help-alpha: Displays the list for in development
checkers. Enabling is discouraged
for non-development purposes.
-analyzer-checker-help-developer: Modeling and debug checkers. Modeling
checkers shouldn't be enabled/disabled
by hand, and debug checkers shouldn't
be touched by users.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62093
llvm-svn: 361558
During my work on analyzer dependencies, I created a great amount of new
checkers that emitted no diagnostics at all, and were purely modeling some
function or another.
However, the user shouldn't really disable/enable these by hand, hence this
patch, which hides these by default. I intentionally chose not to hide alpha
checkers, because they have a scary enough name, in my opinion, to cause no
surprise when they emit false positives or cause crashes.
The patch introduces the Hidden bit into the TableGen files (you may remember
it before I removed it in D53995), and checkers that are either marked as
hidden, or are in a package that is marked hidden won't be displayed under
-analyzer-checker-help. -analyzer-checker-help-hidden, a new flag meant for
developers only, displays the full list.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60925
llvm-svn: 359720
Kristof Umann