The bugbuster.py script is a tiny Python script that wraps around well known static analyzers, the splint static analyzer, the TenDRA compiler static checker and cppcheck static analyzer. It has various options that will allow you to easily manage error message from the compile command under Emacs or VIM. You can participate on the development process on github.com on the following URL: bugbuster repository.
It searches for the configuration file on the current directory as ./.bugbuster.ini and it has the following options:
- defaults
- This is only a global section option, and indicates which checkers should run for the given files.
- includes
- Directory list to search for include directories separated by colon characters, for example a valid value for this option is: /usr/include:/usr/local/include.
- suppress
- Suppress messages in other files rather than displaying messages for all files, for example external files like included headers.
- flags
- Additional flags that should be used with the current checker.
- ignore
- Ignore lines containing the given text values separated by colon characters, for example a value of Checking:__cplusplus will ignore all lines that contains Checking or __cplusplus.
- noincludes
- Removes the include directories with the given checker added on the global → includes section.
A configuration file .bugbuster.ini. file should look as follows and you can run bugbuster with the –help flag to obtain a list of available command line options:
[global] includes = /usr/include/libxml2:/usr ### include dirs suppress = true ### suppress other file messages defaults = cppcheck:tendra:splint ### enabled checkers [tendra] flags = -Yxpg4:-Yposix2:-Yposix:-Xs ### tendra flags ignore = preprocessing:aborting ### ignore lines with text [splint] flags = -bugslimit:100 ### splint flags ignore = exported:observer ### ignore lines with text [cppcheck] noincludes = true ### omit default includes ignore = Checking:__cplusplus ### ignore lines with text
The help screen looks as follows:
11:47 [dmw@www:0 ~]$ bugbuster.py --help
Usage: bugbuster.py [options]
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l BUG_LINT, --lint=BUG_LINT
Add a lint program to use (defaults: ['cppcheck',
'tendra', 'splint'])
-e BUG_ENV, --env=BUG_ENV
Adds environment variable
-c BUG_CONFIG, --config=BUG_CONFIG
Uses the configuration file
-f FILES, --files=FILES
File to process (twice to add more files)
-s, --suppress Suppress messages in other files
-i IGNORE, --ignore=IGNORE
Ignore lines with substring, twice to add
11:57 [dmw@www:0 ~]$
emacs integration
To integrate bugbuster.py in Emacs, you can add the following code in your .emacs file:
(global-set-key [C-f11] 'dmw-do-bugbuster)
(defun dmw-do-bugbuster ()
(interactive)
(set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
(let ((file (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))
(format "bugbuster.py --file=%s" file)))
(message compile-command)
(compile compile-command))
Remember that bugbuster.py and the compile command will use the current file directory as current directory and will search there for the .bugbuster.ini file for available options.
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