Cppcheck supports a wide variety of static checks that may not be covered by the compiler itself. These checks are static analysis checks that can be performed at a source code level. The program is directed towards static analysis checks that are rigorous, rather than heuristic in nature.
As with many analysis programs, there are many unusual cases of programming idioms that may be acceptable in particular target cases or outside of the programmer's scope for source code correction. A study conducted in March 2009 identified several areas where false positives were found by Cppcheck, but did not specify the program version examined.[4] Cppcheck has been identified for use in systems such as CERNs 4DSOFT meta analysis package,[5] for code verification in high energy particle detector readout devices,[6] system monitoring software for radio telescopes[7] as well as in error analysis of large projects, such as OpenOffice.org[8] and the Debian archive.[9]
Development
The project is actively under development[10] and is actively maintained in different distributions.[11][12] It has found valid bugs in a number of popular projects[13] such as the Linux kernel and MPlayer.[14]
