C++ reimplementation of cpplint 2.0

Cpplint is a command-line tool to check C/C++ files for style issues according to Google's C++ style guide. It used to be developed and maintained by Google Inc. One of its forks now maintains the project.

You can install the cpplint-cpp command via pip.

pip install cpplint-cpp --no-index --find-links https://matyalatte.github.io/cpplint-cpp/packages.html

Here is an analysis of the performance differences between cpplint-cpp and cpplint.py against two repositories: googletest and cpplint-cpp. Measurements were taken on an Ubuntu runner with some scripts.

You can see cpplint-cpp has significantly better performance, being over 30 times faster than cpplint.py.

Despite using multithreading with 4 cores, cpplint-cpp has lower memory usage than cpplint.py.

Basically, cpplint-cpp uses the same algorithm as cpplint.py, but some changes have been made to reduce processing time.

• Added concurrent file processing.
• Removed some redundant function calls.
• Used JIT compiler for some regex patterns.
• Combined some regex patterns.
• Added --timing option to display the execution time.
• Added --threads= option to specify the number of threads.
• And other minor changes for optimization...

cpplint-cpp is a WIP project. Please note that the following features are not implemented yet.

• JUnit style outputs.
• Multibyte characters in stdin on Windows.

• Meson
• C++20 compiler

You can build cpplint-cpp with the following commands.

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
meson test -C build
./build/cpplint-cpp --version

You can use presets/release.ini to enable options for release build.

meson setup build --native-file=presets/release.ini
meson compile -C build

You can make a pip package with the following commands.

mkdir dist
cp ./build/cpplint-cpp ./dist
cp ./build/version.h ./dist
pip install build
python -m build

I do not accept feature requests related to cpplint specifications, including the addition of new rules. For such requests, please visit the original cpplint project to submit your suggestions.

See CONTRIBUTING.md

This software uses (or is inspired by) several open-source projects. I gratefully acknowledge the work of the following contributors:

• Google Style Guides by Google Inc.

  • Contribution: Original implementation of cpplint.py.
  • License: Apache License 2.0

• cpplint/cpplint

  • Contribution: Latest updates of cpplint.py.
  • License: BSD 3-Clause License

• pcre2

  • Contribution: Regex matching.
  • License: PCRE2 LICENCE

• ThreadPool by progschj

  • Contribution: Thread pool implementation
  • License: zlib License

• widechar_width.h by ridiculousfish

  • Contribution: Reference tables for character widths.
  • License: CC0 Public Domain