Cppcheck

cppcheck is a tool used to check a number of checks on the codebase. The list of all the checks is available at : https://sourceforge.net/p/cppcheck/wiki/ListOfChecks/

tool configuration

This tool is using the pre-existing cppcheck configurations (arm-cortex-m.cfg/tfm-suppress-list.txt), implementing the developer’s guidelines, as used by the TF-M CI.

The suppression list contains:

Files that are not guaranteed to comply with the TF-M rules.

Files under directories that correspond to external libraries.

The files utils.sh, arm-cortex-cfg.cfg and tfm-suppress-list.txt were copied from the CI scripts repo : https://review.trustedfirmware.org/admin/repos/ci/tf-m-ci-scripts

Using this tool

This script must be launched from the TFM repo and the reports will be stored under checks_reports if the xml option is selected. The possible parameters are the following:

‘-h’ display the help for this tool

‘-r’ select the raw output option. If this parameter is selected, the output will be displayed in the console instead of stored in an xml file