Developer(s) | |
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Repository |
github |
Written in | Python |
Type | Static program analysis tool |
License | 3-clause BSD license |
Website |
google |
cpplint or cpplint.py is an open source lint-like tool developed by Google, designed to ensure that C++ code conforms to Google's coding style guides.
Therefore cpplint implements what Google considers best practices in C++ coding. The script cpplint.py reads source code files and flags deviations from the style guide. It also identifies syntax errors. It is rules based, and uses a number of heuristics to identify bad code. [1]
Cpplint is not perfect, as it can suffer from occasional false positives and negatives. Nevertheless, it is still a very useful tool for style enforcement. [2]
Moreover rules can be fine-grained selected using the options --verbose
and --filter
.
Line length rule can be configured with option --linelength
and file extensions can be configured with --extensions
(by default: 'h', 'cpp', 'cc', 'cu' and 'cuh').
Some options can be stored in a configuration file CPPLINT.cfg
.
cpplint is implemented as a Python script. [3] It is distributed under the 3 clause BSD license.