Hmm, right now there is no way to use alpha checks in clang tidy?
Piotr

On Nov 10, 2016 10:57, "Malcolm Parsons via cfe-commits" <
cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On 9 November 2016 at 18:50, Devin Coughlin <dcough...@apple.com> wrote:
>
> > We agree that this is a valuable checker and are committed to getting it
> out of alpha. This check is in alpha because:
> >
> > a) The diagnostic experience is not very good. It reports a call path
> directly in the diagnostic message (for example “Call path: foo <— bar” for
> a call to foo() in bar()) rather than as a path diagnostic.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > b) The lack of path-sensitive reasoning may result in false positives
> when a called function uses a member variable flag to track whether
> initialization is complete and does not call the virtual member function
> during initialization.
>
> Right, we're not doing this.
>
> > c) The check issues a warning for both calls to pure virtual functions
> (which is always an error) and non-pure virtual functions (which is more of
> a code smell and may be a false positive).
>
> I'm using static analysis to find code smells.
>
> > I’ll commit to doing Step 1) in the immediate future and Step 2)
> eventually. Once the checker is on by default we’ll need to assess whether
> the false positive rate from c) is too high — if so, we’ll need to turn the
> non-pure-virtual case off by default.
>
> LGTM.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Malcolm Parsons
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