cppcheck skips .hpp files

Question

I have a heavily templated project that is using the system of having a .h file with the function declarations #include a corresponding .hpp with the function definitions. However, cppcheck doesn't seem to parse the .hpp files, and I don't see an option to change the file extensions that it parses. How do people usually handle this?

Answer 1

It seems that one can not change the extension cppcheck is looking for when scanning a directory. There are some other options:

1. Have a text file with a list of all your *.hpp files and run cppcheck with the --file-list=<file> parameter.

2. Run cppcheck for every *.hpp file directly, giving the filename on command line.

3. Create *.cpp files that include the include those *.hpp files so that cppcheck can find them. Those could be tests for your library.