This release includes new features, as well as enhancements to the existing functionality.
In this release:
Support for New Compilers
- GNU GCC 6.x ( Windows and Linux)
- IAR Compiler for ARM v.7.8x (Windows)
- Renesas RX C/C++ Compiler 2.5x (Windows)
ARM Compiler 5.0 / ARM Compiler 5.0 for uVision: updated support for C++11 (--cpp11)
Suppress Findings Locally on Your Desktop
When you suppress findings in your IDE, the suppression information can now be stored locally on your desktop - without impacting suppressions that are shared across the team via DTP or your source control system. Locally suppressed findings can be reviewed and unsuppressed right in your IDE. For details, see Suppressing Findings.
Static Analysis Customization with Rule Maps
Enhanced rule mapping facilitates quick and flexible implementation of your organization's development policy. You can create rule maps to change the properties of static analysis rules executed by C/C++test, such as severity and category, and associate them with test configurations stored in Development Testing Platform.
Enhancements to Static Analysis
In this release, we've added new rules following the CERT C Coding Standard, as well as modern C++ standards (C++11, C++14, and C++17), see New Code Analysis Rules. The CERT C rules have been added to the CERT C Coding Standard built-in test configuration; see Updated CERT C Configuration for information about the mapping.
Additionally, stability and accuracy of results reported by Static Analysis and Flow Analysis have been improved; see Updated Code Analysis Rules for the list of rules that have been modified in terms of accuracy of results or documentation changes.
Severity levels for MISRA C 2012 rules have been updated:
- Mandatory → Severity 1
- Required → Severity 2
- Advisory → Severity 4
The RuleWizard Module has been extended with the following nodes and properties:
- C/C++ Nodes> Expressions> Miscellaneous> Lambda node
- C/C++ Nodes> General> Lambda Capture node
- HasDefaultValue property (true for routine parameter with default value)
See RuleWizard 10.3.2 User's Guide for more details.
Other Enhancements
- Licensing: Calculation of the license machine-ID has been updated to support deployment within AWS and Azure cloud environments.
New Code Analysis Rules
| Rule ID | Header |
|---|---|
| BD-PB-BYTEORD | Use the correct byte ordering when transferring data between systems |
| BD-PB-INVENV | Do not rely on an environment pointer following an operation that may invalidate it |
| BD-PB-PUTENV | Donotcallputenv() with a pointer to an automatic variable as the argument |
| BD-SECURITY-RAND | Properly seed pseudorandom number generators |
| BD-TRS-ARG | Declare objects shared between POSIX threads with appropriate storage durations |
| BD-TRS-BITLOCK | Use locks to prevent race conditions when modifying bit fields |
| BD-TRS-DSTRLOCK | Do not destroy another thread's mutex |
| BD-TRS-FORKFILE | Avoid race conditions when using fork and file descriptors |
| BD-TRS-REVLOCK | Do not release a lock that has not been acquired |
| BD-TRS-SYMLINK | Avoid race conditions while checking for the existence of a symbolic link |
| CODSTA-127_b | A conversion should not be performed between a pointer to object type and an integer type other than 'uintptr_t' or 'intptr_t' |
| CODSTA-150_c | Avoid side effects in arguments to unsafe macros |
| CODSTA-187_a | Cast characters to unsigned char before assignment to larger integer sizes |
| CODSTA-187_b | An expression of the 'signed char' type should not be used as an array index |
| CODSTA-187_c | Cast characters to unsigned char before converting to larger integer sizes |
| CODSTA-188 | Do not confuse narrow and wide character strings and functions |
| CODSTA-189 | Do not add or subtract a scaled integer to a pointer |
| CODSTA-190 | Do not use object representations to compare floating-point values |
| CODSTA-MCPP-10_a | Prefer const iterators to iterators |
| CODSTA-MCPP-10_b | Prefertousecbegin(),crbegin,cend(),crend() functions |
| CODSTA-MCPP-13 | Use std::move() on rvalue references and std::forward() on forwarding references |
| CODSTA-MCPP-15_a | Avoid default capture modes |
| CODSTA-MCPP-15_b | Use the 'this'pointerexplicitlyinlambdaswithdefaultby-referencecapture |
| CODSTA-MCPP-16_a | Prefer smart pointer members over raw pointer members |
| CODSTA-MCPP-16_b | Prefer smart pointers over raw pointers for arrays or STL containers |
| CODSTA-MCPP-16_c | Prefer 'std::make_shared' to the direct use of new |
| CODSTA-MCPP-16_d | Prefer to use std::unique_ptr instead of std::auto_ptr |
| CODSTA-MCPP-17 | Never return lambdas that capture local objects by reference |
| CODSTA-MCPP-18_a | Avoid unnecessary default capture modes in lambda expressions |
| CODSTA-MCPP-18_b | Avoid unnecessary lambda captures |
| GLOBAL-CONDMUTEXVAR | Do not use more tha none mutex for concurrent waiting operations on a condition variable |
| SECURITY-02_b | Do not use the rand() function for generating pseudorandom numbers |
| SECURITY-43 | The function 'pthread_setcanceltype()' should not be called with 'PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS' argument |
| SECURITY-44 | Observe correct revocation order while relinquishing privileges |
| SECURITY-45 | Ensure that privilege relinquishment is successful |
| SECURITY-46 | A pointer to a structure should not be passed to a function that can copy data to the user space |
| SECURITY-47 | Use correct integer precisions when checking the right-hand operand of the shift operator |
| SECURITY-48 | Do not call system() |
Updated Code Analysis Rules
The verbose mode has been added for the BD-PB-ZERO rule.
The following rules have been modified in terms of accuracy of results or documentation changes:
- BD-PB-ARRAY, BD-PB-ERRNO, BD-PB-EXCEPT, BD-PB-INTOVERF, BD-PB-NOTINIT, BD-PB-NZTS, BD-PB-SWITCH, BD-TRS-TSHL
- CODSTA-144*, CODSTA-145*, CODSTA-150*, CODSTA-150_b*, CODSTA-161_a, CODSTA-CPP-04, CODSTA-CPP-28, CODSTA-CPP-53
- INIT-06, INIT-07, INIT-15
- JSF-071_b, JSF-118, JSF-174_b, JSF-177_b, JSF-180_f, JSF-180_g, JSF-209_b
- MISRA-043_c, MISRA-043_d, MISRA-107_b, MISRA2004-6_3_b, MISRA2004-16_7, MISRA2008-7_1_1, MISRA2008-7_1_2_a, MISRA2012-DIR-4_1_a, MISRA2012-DIR-4_6_b, MISRA2012-RULE-8_13_a, MISRA2012RULE-10_1_a, MISRA2012-RULE-12_4_a*, MISRA2012-RULE-14_3_zd, MISRA2012-RULE-18_1_a
- OOP-01
- PB-66_a*
- SECURITY-10, SECURITY-12*, SECURITY-25
* documentation changes
Updated CERT C Configuration
The CERT C Coding Standard built-in test configuration has been updated with new Parasoft rules according to the following rule mapping:
| CERT ID | Parasoft ID |
|---|---|
| CERT-ARR39-C | CODSTA-189 |
| CERT-CON33-C | SECURITY-25 |
| CERT-DCL39-C | SECURITY-46 |
| CERT-ENV31-C | BD-PB-INVENV |
| CERT-ENV33-C | SECURITY-48 |
| CERT-ERR30-C | BD-PB-ERRNO |
| CERT-FIO42-C | BD-RES-LEAKS |
| CERT-FLP32-C | BD-API-VALPARAM |
| CERT-FLP36-C | MISRA-043_c, MISRA-043_d |
| CERT-FLP37-C | CODSTA-190 |
| CERT-INT30-C | PB-66_a, BD-PB-INTOVERF |
| CERT-INT35-C | SECURITY-47 |
| CERT-INT36-C | CODSTA-127_b |
| CERT-MSC30-C | SECURITY-02_b |
| CERT-MSC32-C | BD-SECURITY-RAND |
| CERT-POS30-C | CODSTA-144, CODSTA-145, BD-PB-OVERFNZT |
| CERT-POS33-C | SECURITY-10 |
| CERT-POS34-C | BD-PB-PUTENV |
| CERT-POS35-C | BD-TRS-SYMLINK |
| CERT-POS36-C | SECURITY-44 |
| CERT-POS37-C | SECURITY-45 |
| CERT-POS38-C | BD-TRS-FORKFILE |
| CERT-POS39-C | BD-PB-BYTEORD |
| CERT-POS47-C | SECURITY-43 |
| CERT-POS48-C | BD-TRS-DSTRLOCK, BD-TRS-REVLOCK |
| CERT-POS49-C | BD-TRS-BITLOCK |
| CERT-POS50-C | BD-TRS-ARG |
| CERT-POS51-C | BD-TRS-ORDER |
| CERT-POS52-C | BD-TRS-TSHL |
| CERT-POS53-C | GLOBAL-CONDMUTEXVAR |
| CERT-PRE31-C | CODSTA-150, CODSTA-150_b, CODSTA-150_c |
| CERT-STR31-C | BD-PB-ARRAY, BD-PB-OVERFWR, BD-SECURITY-BUFWRITE, BD-SECURITY-OVERFWR, SECURITY-12 |
| CERT-STR34-C | CODSTA-187_a, CODSTA-187_b, CODSTA-187_c |
| CERT-STR38-C | CODSTA-188 |
Resolved FRs and PRs
| PR/FR ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CPP-36398 | Problem with matching function definition with its declaration when using Eigen library |
| CPP-36850 | Add support for C++11 inarmcc5.06 |
| CPP-36861 | Support for Renesas RX 2.05 C/C++ compiler (renrx_2_5) |
| CPP-36892 | The rule MISRA-107_b reports false positives when pointer is assigned and checked in the same line |
| CPP-36896 | Support for GNU GCC 6 (native/host-based compiler) |
| CPP-36965 | CODSTA-CPP-53 false positive, "Declare local variable 'x' as const" |
| CPP-36966 | OOP-01 (Sutter Rule 54) false positive: "Base class copy constructor should be protected or public with smart pointer as parameter" |
| CPP-36967 | CODSTA-CPP-28 (Sutter Rule 27) false positive: "Whenbinaryarithmeticoperatorsaredefined,assignmentversionsshouldbeprovidedtoo" |
| CPP-37005 | DTP Findings tab "Subcategory" show "Unknown" for all C++test findings. |
| CPP-37009 | Rule INIT-06 reports violation even if member is initialized directly in class [C++11] |
| CPP-37011 | The rule MISRA2004-6_3_b (MISRA2012-DIR-4_6_b, JSF-209_b) does not report violation when implicit signed/unsigned type is used |
| CPP-37018 | The rule CODSTA-CPP-04 should not report violations on move constructors [C++11] |
| CPP-37019 | Segmentation fault when using cwc.bin (TIOBE) |
| CPP-37021 | The rule MISRA2004-16_7 (MISRA2012-RULE-8_13_a) reports false positives |
| CPP-37022 | QA: Suppression comment is garbled when the multibyte character is used to suppression comment |
| CPP-37023 | [VS2015] Parse problem with _Buffer_descriptor() restrict(amp,cpu) |
| CPP-37782 | Source paths not correctly scanned in BDF file |