1.15.0

Added

• ParsingError analysis rule, which flags files where parsing failures occurred.
• Support for the WEAK_NATIVEINT symbol, which is defined from Delphi 12 onward.
• Support for undocumented intrinsics usable within varargs routines:
  • VarArgStart
  • VarArgGetValue
  • VarArgCopy
  • VarArgEnd

Changed

• Exclude types annotated with attributes in UnusedType.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within include files.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within compiler directives.

Deprecated

• API: SwitchDirective.SwitchKind.TYPEADDRESS enum member, use TYPEDADDRESS instead.

Fixed

• Exceptions from empty structures (e.g., if) in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce and RedundantJump.
• False positives from case statements in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce.
• False positives from nested finally-except blocks in RedundantJump.
• False positives around wrapped type declarations in VisibilityKeywordIndentation.
• False negatives around inline var and const in PlatformDependentTruncation.
• Trailing whitespace within comments not recognized in TrailingWhitespace.
• Overload resolution failures on the variant overload of the Copy intrinsic.
• Several compiler directives were not being recognized:
  • E
  • F
  • K
  • N
  • S
  • ALLOWBIND
  • ALLOWISOLATION
  • HIGHENTROPYVA
  • HIGHCHARUNICODE
  • LARGEADDRESSAWARE
  • MAXPAGESIZE
  • NXCOMPAT
  • SONAME
  • SOPREFIX
  • SOSUFFIX
  • SOVERSION
  • STACKCHECKS
  • STRINGCHECKS
  • TSAWARE
  • TYPEDADDRESS

1.14.1

Fixed

• File pointer errors around >= and <= tokens.

1.14.0

Added

• RedundantJump analysis rule, which flags redundant jump statements, e.g., Continue, Exit.
• LoopExecutingAtMostOnce analysis rule, which flags loop statements that can execute at most once.
• excludedNames rule property to the MixedNames rule.
• API: RepeatStatementNode::getGuardExpression method.
• API: RepeatStatementNode::getStatementList method.
• API: CaseStatementNode::getSelectorExpression method.
• API: CaseItemStatementNode::getStatement method.

Fixed

• Parsing errors where adjacent > and = tokens were wrongly interpreted as the >= operator.
• False-positives within assignment statements in IndexLastListElement.

1.13.0

Added

• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getDeclarationSection method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getStatementBlock method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::isEmpty method.

Changed

• Include the global browsing path in unit import resolution.
• Reprioritize the analysis search path in the following order (highest to lowest):
  • Referenced project files (DCCReference)
  • Search path (DCC_UnitSearchPath)
  • Debugger source path (Debugger_DebugSourcePath)
  • Library path (DelphiLibraryPath/DelphiTranslatedLibraryPath)
  • Browsing path (DelphiBrowsingPath)
  • Standard library
  • Analysis source files (sonar.sources)
• Empty anonymous methods are now ignored in EmptyBlock.
• Empty anonymous methods are now flagged in EmptyRoutine.

1.12.2

Fixed

• Incorrect case-sensitive treatment of file names in coverage reports.

1.12.1

Fixed

• Various intrinsic routines had incorrect signatures around dynamic and open arrays.
• False positives around platform-dependent binary expressions in PlatformDependentTruncation.
• Incorrect type resolution around array property accesses.

1.12.0

Added

• API: DelphiCheckContext::getUri method.

Fixed

• Parsing errors on semicolon-delimited generic type parameters in routine implementation headers.
• Incorrect return types for Length, High, and Low on open/dynamic arrays depending on the compiler version and toolchain.
• Name resolution failures on explicit references to default array properties with overloads on ancestor types.

1.11.0

Added

• MissingRaise analysis rule, which flags exception constructions for which raise has been omitted.
• API: ProceduralType::directives method.
• API: ProceduralTypeNode::getDirectives method.
• API: ProceduralTypeNode::hasDirective method.
• API: ProceduralTypeHeadingNode::getDirectives method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getAnonymousMethodHeading method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getDirectives method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::hasDirective method.
• API: AnonymousMethodHeadingNode node type.
• API: DelphiTokenType.ANONYMOUS_METHOD token type.
• API: DelphiTokenType.ANONYMOUS_METHOD_HEADING token type.

Fixed

• Parsing errors on implementation keywords nested in conditional branches.
• Parsing errors on anonymous methods with routine directives (like calling conventions).
• IndexOutOfBoundsException errors around procedural types declared with varargs in VariableInitialization.

1.10.0

Added

• FullyQualifiedImport analysis rule, which flags non-fully qualified imports.
• API: UnitImportNameDeclaration::isAlias method.

Changed

• Non-trivial inherited expressions are excluded in RedundantParentheses.

Fixed

• False positives around const array literals in RedundantParentheses.

1.9.0

Added

• API: CaseItemStatementNode::getExpressions method.

Changed

• Improve type inference around unsigned integer literals.
• Improve type inference around array constructors containing integer literals.
• Improve type inference around real expressions.
• Parentheses enclosing a primary expression are considered redundant in RedundantParentheses.
• out parameters are treated as uninitialized at the start of a routine in VariableInitialization.

Fixed

• Name resolution errors around alias ancestor types.
• Parsing errors around partial asm blocks blocks in conditional branches.
• False positives around case items with multiple values in CaseStatementSize.