From 05ca3ec7d08129f5cd8d26f883ca91339b841c0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Angel Garcia Gomez Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:50:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update clang-tidy documentation. Summary: Improve modernize-use-auto documentation (https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24962). Add documentation for modernize-make-unique. Reviewers: klimek Subscribers: cfe-commits, alexfh Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13346 llvm-svn: 249017 --- .../docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst | 1 + .../checks/modernize-make-unique.rst | 15 +++++++++ .../clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-auto.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-make-unique.rst diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst index 1260a9deeed2a..497670e10b99c 100644 --- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst +++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/list.rst @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ List of clang-tidy Checks misc-unused-parameters misc-unused-raii modernize-loop-convert + modernize-make-unique modernize-pass-by-value modernize-replace-auto-ptr modernize-shrink-to-fit diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-make-unique.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-make-unique.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..df9d5545ceac0 --- /dev/null +++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-make-unique.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +modernize-make-unique +===================== + +This check finds the creation of ``std::unique_ptr`` objects by explicitly +calling the constructor and a ``new`` expression, and replaces it with a call +to ``std::make_unique``, introduced in C++14. + +.. code-block:: c++ + + auto my_ptr = std::unique_ptr(new MyPair(1, 2)); + + // becomes + + auto my_ptr = std::make_unique(1, 2); + diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-auto.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-auto.rst index 39bc3854a4e6c..1a72657c4aa7a 100644 --- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-auto.rst +++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-auto.rst @@ -108,6 +108,39 @@ conditions are satisfied: list. Otherwise, use of ``auto`` would cause the type of the variable to be deduced as``std::initializer_list``. +New expressions +--------------- + +Frequently, when a pointer is declared and initialized with ``new``, the +pointee type has to be written twice: in the declaration type and in the +``new`` expression. In this cases, the declaration type can be replaced with +``auto`` improving readability and maintainability. + +.. code-block:: c++ + + TypeName *my_pointer = new TypeName(my_param); + + // becomes + + auto my_pointer = new TypeName(my_param); + +The check will also replace the declaration type in multiple declarations, if +the following conditions are satisfied: + +* All declared variables have the same type (i.e. all of them are pointers to + the same type). +* All declared variables are initialized with a ``new`` expression. +* The types of all the new expressions are the same than the pointee of the + declaration type. + +.. code-block:: c++ + + TypeName *my_first_pointer = new TypeName, *my_second_pointer = new TypeName; + + // becomes + + auto my_first_pointer = new TypeName, my_second_pointer = new TypeName; + Known Limitations ----------------- * If the initializer is an explicit conversion constructor, the check will not