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ncc

C/C++ Naming convention checker (ncc)

ncc is a development tool to help programmers write C/C++ code that adheres to a some naming conventions. It automates the process of checking C/C++ code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard.

Dependencies

The following packages are pre-requisites for ncc tool. Note that, the python 'clang' provides libclang python bindings. The clang version should match the libclang.so version on your system

clang
yaml

pip install clang
pip install pyyaml

Windows

On Microsoft Windows install install 32 bit version of LLVM compiler tool chain.

Usage

ncc.py [--help] [--recurse] [--style STYLE_FILE] [--cdbdir CDBDIR] [--dump]
       [--output OUTPUT] [--filetype FILETYPE] [--exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]]
       [--path PATH [PATH ...]] [--include INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...]]
       [--definition DEFINITION [DEFINITION ...]] [--clang-lib CLANG_LIB]

For detailed description of all options:

ncc.py --help

To print all rules:

    ncc.py --dump

Style Defintion

Style for c/c++ constructs are defined by regular expresssions. For e.g the below rules say that a struct can have any character, a class name should begin with 'C', and a class member variable should begin with m_, and a function name should begin with uppercase alphabet

    ClassName: 'C.*'
    CppMethod: '[A-Z].*'
    VariableName:
        ScopePrefix:
            Global: 'g_'
            Static: 's_'
            ClassMember: 'm_'
        DataTypePrefix:
            String: 'str'
            Pointer: 'p'
            Integer: 'n'
            Bool: 'b'
        Pattern: '^.*$'

Example Usage

Check file test.cpp for naming convention violations:

    ./ncc.py --style examples/ncc.style --path examples/test.cpp

    examples/test.cpp:16:7: "B" does not match "^C.*$" associated with ClassName
    examples/test.cpp:28:9: "b" does not match "^m_.*$" associated with ClassMemberVariable
    examples/test.cpp:31:5: "main(int, const char **)" does not match "^[A-Z].*$" associated with FunctionName
    Total number of errors = 3

Recursively find all files under 'examples' directory, but exclude '.cpp' and '.h' files

    ./ncc.py --style examples/ncc.style --recurse --exclude *.cpp *.h --path examples

    examples/test.hpp:4:7: "Test" does not match "^C.*$" associated with ClassName
    examples/test.hpp:12:9: "t" does not match "^m_.*$" associated with ClassMemberVariable
    examples/test.hpp:19:9: "_aaa" does not match "^[a-z].*$" associated with StructMemberVariable
    examples/test.c:8:9: "_b" does not match "^[a-z].*$" associated with StructMemberVariable
    examples/test.c:9:9: "_c" does not match "^[a-z].*$" associated with StructMemberVariable
    examples/tmp/test.hpp:4:7: "Test" does not match "^C.*$" associated with ClassName
    examples/tmp/test.hpp:12:9: "t" does not match "^m_.*$" associated with ClassMemberVariable
    examples/tmp/test.hpp:19:9: "_aaa" does not match "^[a-z].*$" associated with StructMemberVariable
    Total number of errors = 8

License

Distributed under the MIT License (MIT).

Thank You

Daniel J. Hofmann

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