[IMPALA-3632] Tooling for helping to clean up c++ code.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.7.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Labels: static-analysis
• Target Version: Impala 2.7.0
• Assignee: Alexander Behm
• Reporter: Alexander Behm
• Created: 27/May/16 07:15
• Updated: 10/Apr/18 18:58
• Resolved: 08/Jun/16 08:40

Description

It would be nice to have extra automation to help us sanitize our c++ code, for example, detecting superfluous includes or includes that can be avoided with forward declarations.

These free tools seem interesting:
https://github.com/myint/cppclean
https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use

The latter one is in an Alpha stage and has a pretty heavy-weight setup, but has more advanced capabilities (if they work). Maybe cppclean is good the simpler solution for now.

Issue Links

• is related to: IMPALA-6833 Use include-what-you-use to reduce build times