Add CMake clang-tidy integration, enable in CI, and fix all clang-tidy errors by Copilot · Pull Request #30 · microsoft/merklecpp

Copilot · 2026-02-23T10:28:25Z

Add CLANG_TIDY CMake option
Update CI to install clang-tidy and enable it
Add curated .clang-tidy configuration
Fix clang-tidy errors in test files
Fix clang-tidy errors in merklecpp.h
Add CI step to run clang-tidy on header directly
Fix remaining OpenSSL-specific clang-tidy errors in all files

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- Add CLANG_TIDY option to CMakeLists.txt that sets CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY using find_program to locate clang-tidy - Install clang-tidy in CI workflow - Pass -DCLANG_TIDY=ON for Linux CI builds Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

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achamayou · 2026-02-23T11:13:46Z

@copilot add a .clang-tidy configuration that enables warnings as errors, uses FormatStyle "file", and enables all categories of errors.

…tStyle file Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot · 2026-02-23T11:16:41Z

@copilot add a .clang-tidy configuration that enables warnings as errors, uses FormatStyle "file", and enables all categories of errors.

Added .clang-tidy in 129d9b4 with Checks: '*', WarningsAsErrors: '*', and FormatStyle: file. Note that enabling all checks will cause build failures on the existing codebase (e.g., llvmlibc-*, fuchsia-*, altera-* checks). You may want to selectively disable non-applicable checks with -checkname entries.

achamayou · 2026-02-23T11:21:59Z

@copilot you make a good point, can you enable all the sensible checks you can think of then, and not the ones that are project or company dependent?

Note that enabling all checks will cause build failures on the existing codebase (e.g., llvmlibc-, fuchsia-, altera-* checks). You may want to selectively disable non-applicable checks with -checkname entries.

…t/company-specific ones Enable: bugprone, cert, clang-analyzer, concurrency, cppcoreguidelines, hicpp, misc, modernize, performance, portability, readability. Exclude: abseil, altera, android, boost, darwin, fuchsia, google, linuxkernel, llvm, llvmlibc, mpi, objc, openmp, zircon. Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot · 2026-02-23T11:24:25Z

@copilot you make a good point, can you enable all the sensible checks you can think of then, and not the ones that are project or company dependent?

Note that enabling all checks will cause buil...

Updated in 02e2456. The .clang-tidy now enables only broadly applicable categories: bugprone-*, cert-*, clang-analyzer-*, concurrency-*, cppcoreguidelines-*, hicpp-*, misc-*, modernize-*, performance-*, portability-*, readability-*.

Excluded project/company/platform-specific categories: abseil-*, altera-*, android-*, boost-*, darwin-*, fuchsia-*, google-*, linuxkernel-*, llvm-*, llvmlibc-*, mpi-*, objc-*, openmp-*, zircon-*.

achamayou · 2026-02-23T11:28:33Z

@copilot great, now run the build step you have modified to add clang tidy, look a errors it produces, and makes the necessary changes to the code to fix them.

- Replace #define with constexpr for PRINT_HASH_SIZE - Add braces to single-statement for loops and if blocks - Add const to variables that are not modified - Replace std::endl with '\n' Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define HSZ with constexpr size_t - Fix implicit widening of multiplication with static_cast - Add braces around single-line if body - Add const to seconds variable - Fix narrowing conversion with static_cast<double> - Replace std::endl with '\n' Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace macro with constexpr variable - Add const qualifiers where appropriate - Use nullptr instead of 0 for std::time - Replace std::endl with newline character - Use static_cast instead of C-style casts - Split multi-variable declaration - Use range-based for loop - Add braces around single-line if body - Fix implicit bool conversion Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace macro with constexpr - Add const qualifiers where appropriate - Use nullptr instead of 0 for std::time - Replace std::endl with '\n' - Fix implicit widening with static_cast - Split multiple variable declarations - Use auto with static_cast instead of C-style casts - Add braces around single-statement blocks Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace macro with constexpr - Add const qualifiers where appropriate - Use nullptr instead of 0 for std::time - Replace std::endl with '\n' - Fix implicit widening with static_cast - Split multiple variable declarations - Add missing throw keyword (bugprone-throw-keyword-missing) - Add braces around single-line if bodies - Fix implicit bool conversion Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define with constexpr for PRINT_HASH_SIZE - Add const to timeout and num_leaves variables - Use nullptr instead of 0 in std::time call - Replace std::endl with '\n' throughout - Fix implicit widening conversion with static_cast - Split multiple variable declarations into separate statements - Add braces around single-line if/for bodies - Fix implicit bool conversion (k -> k != 0) Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define PSZ with constexpr size_t - Remove unused main() parameters - Add const to timeout and before variables - Replace std::time(0) with std::time(nullptr) - Replace all std::endl with '\n' - Fix implicit widening with static_cast<size_t> - Split multi-variable declaration into separate statements - Use static_cast instead of C-style casts for num_leaves/num_paths - Add const to num_leaves and num_paths - Add braces around single-statement if/for bodies Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define with constexpr for PRINT_HASH_SIZE - Add const qualifier to timeout variable - Use nullptr instead of 0 for std::time() - Replace std::endl with '\n' throughout - Fix implicit widening with static_cast<size_t> - Split multiple variable declarations into separate statements - Use static_cast instead of C-style cast for num_leaves - Add const to num_leaves since it's not modified after init - Fix implicit bool conversion (k -> k != 0) Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define with constexpr for PRINT_HASH_SIZE - Add const to timeout and use nullptr instead of 0 for std::time - Replace std::endl with '\n' throughout - Fix implicit widening with static_cast - Split multi-variable declaration into separate declarations - Use static_cast instead of C-style casts for num_leaves/num_subtrees - Add const to num_leaves and num_subtrees (use auto) - Add braces around single-statement if body Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Replace #define PRINT_HASH_SIZE with constexpr size_t - Replace std::endl with '\n' - Add braces around single-statement for/if bodies - Fix narrowing conversion from uint8_t to char with static_cast - Initialize char t to 0 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

- Disable overly opinionated checks in .clang-tidy (identifier-length, include-cleaner, trailing-return-type, magic-numbers, mt-unsafe, rand/srand certs, function-complexity, easily-swappable-parameters) - Fix clang-analyzer null pointer warning in merklecpp.h - Replace #define constants with constexpr in all test files - Replace std::endl with '\n' throughout test files - Add braces around single-line control flow statements - Add const qualifiers where appropriate - Use auto with static_cast instead of C-style casts - Split multi-variable declarations - Use nullptr instead of 0 for null pointers - Fix implicit bool conversions - Fix narrowing conversions - Remove dead code in retract.cpp (bugprone-throw-keyword-missing exposed a no-op std::runtime_error construction without throw) - Initialize uninitialized variables - Add stdexcept include to merklecpp.h Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot · 2026-02-23T12:18:36Z

@copilot great, now run the build step you have modified to add clang tidy, look a errors it produces, and makes the necessary changes to the code to fix them.

Done in e10837a. Built with -DCLANG_TIDY=ON, fixed all 183 clang-tidy errors across merklecpp.h and 10 test files, and refined .clang-tidy to disable overly opinionated checks. Build is now clean (0 clang-tidy errors) and all 10 tests pass.

Key changes:

Disabled noisy checks: identifier-length, include-cleaner, trailing-return-type, magic-numbers, mt-unsafe, cert-msc30/32/50/51, function-cognitive-complexity, easily-swappable-parameters
Fixed code: std::endl→'\n', added const/braces, #define→constexpr, nullptr, static_cast, split declarations, narrowing conversions
Fixed a real bug in retract.cpp: std::runtime_error(...) without throw (flagged by bugprone-throw-keyword-missing) — removed the dead code block
Added null-pointer guard in merklecpp.h:1663 for clang-analyzer-core.NonNullParamChecker

test/retract.cpp

achamayou · 2026-02-23T12:49:50Z

@copilot also add a step to the CI that calls clang-tidy manually on merklecpp.h, it doesn't appear to be scanned right now. And make any necessary fixes for errors that clang-tidy finds on it.

…sertion Restore the deleted test lines that verify retract_to(max_index()) is a no-op. The original code had a buggy assertion (comparing max_index() against loop index i, which could diverge due to prior retractions) and a missing throw keyword. Fix both: save max_index before the call and verify it's unchanged after. Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

- Add "Clang-Tidy Header" CI step that runs clang-tidy directly on merklecpp.h (header-only library not scanned by CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY) - Add -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON for compile_commands.json - Fix all clang-tidy findings in merklecpp.h: add braces, const, using, [[nodiscard]], noexcept on move, constexpr version enum, static_cast, std::move for rvalue ref, uppercase literal suffixes, split declarations, remove else-after-return, initialize variables, remove redundant inline - Disable design-incompatible checks for this library: reinterpret-cast (needed for SHA-256), signed-bitwise, c-arrays, pointer-arithmetic, owning-memory, explicit-conversions, special-member-functions, etc. Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot · 2026-02-23T13:07:59Z

@copilot also add a step to the CI that calls clang-tidy manually on merklecpp.h, it doesn't appear to be scanned right now. And make any necessary fixes for errors that clang-tidy finds on it.

Done in 9b34a8c. Added a "Clang-Tidy Header" CI step that runs clang-tidy merklecpp.h -p build/$BUILD_TYPE --warnings-as-errors='*' on all Linux builds (with -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON for the compile database). Fixed all clang-tidy findings in merklecpp.h (braces, const, using instead of typedef, [[nodiscard]], noexcept on move constructors, std::move for rvalue ref params, uppercase literal suffixes, etc.) and disabled checks that are fundamentally incompatible with the library's design (reinterpret_cast for SHA-256, C-arrays for bytes[], pointer arithmetic, raw owning pointers for tree nodes, etc.).

achamayou · 2026-03-02T13:35:25Z

@copilot have another go at running the build, I can see errors still

The previous build didn't include -DOPENSSL=ON, so clang-tidy errors in #ifdef HAVE_OPENSSL blocks were missed. - time_large_trees.cpp: Add braces, const, static_cast for SHA384/512 blocks - compare_hash_functions.cpp: Replace #define with constexpr, typedef with using, std::endl with '\n', split declarations, add braces/const, fix narrowing conversions, use nullptr, fix implicit widening - merklecpp.h: Add const to EVP_Digest return values, replace typedef with using for Hash384/Path384/Tree384/Hash512/Path512/Tree512 Co-authored-by: achamayou <4016369+achamayou@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot · 2026-03-02T13:53:24Z

@copilot have another go at running the build, I can see errors still

Fixed in b4725ec. The previous build ran without -DOPENSSL=ON, so clang-tidy errors inside #ifdef HAVE_OPENSSL blocks were missed. Fixed errors in time_large_trees.cpp (SHA384/512 blocks: braces, const, static_cast), compare_hash_functions.cpp (full file: #define→constexpr, typedef→using, std::endl→'\n', split declarations, const, narrowing conversions, nullptr, widening), and merklecpp.h (const on EVP_Digest return values, typedef→using for Hash384/Path384/Tree384/Hash512/Path512/Tree512). All 11 tests pass with zero clang-tidy errors.

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