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fix: avoid casting warnings for unnamed parameters before multiline bodies - #483
Fixes#131. A valid function such as void foo(int) with its opening body brace on the next line was reported as a C-style cast. Look ahead to the next non-blank cleansed line only for a conservative function-declaration or lambda context; accept an opening body brace while retaining the existing brace-placement style check.
The controls cover 21 signature/separator combinations and 18 real-cast/EOF cases. Multiline compound literals (a GNU C++ extension), including assignment, return/throw, array-delete and alternative-operator contexts, retain their casting warnings. This is a focused heuristic; pre-existing split-return-type, bare-constructor and symbolic-operator cases are outside this fix.
Validation on Python 3.12/macOS: 280 tests passed, 96.64% coverage; Pylint, Mypy (all three Python files), and configured pre-commit hooks passed. Valid signatures compile under strict C++17; all 13 compound-literal regression controls compile under GNU C++17. Regression controls fail before their respective fixes and pass afterward.
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Bug Fixes
Avoided false cast warnings for unnamed parameters when a function body begins on a subsequent line, including when blank lines or comments intervene.
Preserved cast warnings for multiline C-style casts, with recommendations based on the cast type.
Improved recognition of function and lambda signatures before a body, while retaining warnings for cast-like expressions in other statement contexts.
Kept existing diagnostics for incomplete casts and casts involving operands, comments, or brace initializers.
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Look ahead to a next-line body brace while preserving real multiline casts.
Add nine declaration regressions and five cast/EOF controls.
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The cast checker now avoids a C-style cast warning when an unnamed parameter is followed by a function body brace on a later non-blank line. Regression tests cover signature separators and multiline cast expressions. The changelog records the change.
CheckCStyleCast checks the next non-blank line for an opening brace when a cast-like expression ends the current line. It excludes specified statement contexts from this suppression. Tests cover function and lambda signatures, separators, and multiline C-style casts. The changelog records the unnamed-parameter case.
This change stops false C-style-cast warnings for unnamed parameters whose function body brace is on the next line, and real casts keep their warnings. No merge-blocking risk is evident.
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[#131] The whole-PR summary reports that CheckCStyleCast recognizes an unnamed parameter before a multiline function body. Regression tests cover signatures and retain warnings for real casts. Repos…
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[#131] The whole-PR summary reports that CheckCStyleCast recognizes an unnamed parameter before a multiline function body. Regression tests cover signatures and retain warnings for real casts. Repository diffs were unavailable.
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- Around line 6811-6812: The brace-based early return in CheckCStyleCast
suppresses warnings for multiline casts followed by compound literals. Restrict
the exception to braces that begin a function or lambda body, and ensure a cast
such as a value initialized from a parenthesized type followed by a brace
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Fixes #131. A valid function such as
void foo(int)with its opening body brace on the next line was reported as a C-style cast. Look ahead to the next non-blank cleansed line only for a conservative function-declaration or lambda context; accept an opening body brace while retaining the existing brace-placement style check.The controls cover 21 signature/separator combinations and 18 real-cast/EOF cases. Multiline compound literals (a GNU C++ extension), including assignment, return/throw, array-delete and alternative-operator contexts, retain their casting warnings. This is a focused heuristic; pre-existing split-return-type, bare-constructor and symbolic-operator cases are outside this fix.
Validation on Python 3.12/macOS: 280 tests passed, 96.64% coverage; Pylint, Mypy (all three Python files), and configured pre-commit hooks passed. Valid signatures compile under strict C++17; all 13 compound-literal regression controls compile under GNU C++17. Regression controls fail before their respective fixes and pass afterward.
This contribution was prepared with AI assistance; all reported commands were actually executed.
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