How do I exclude library headers from my Visual Studio static code analysis?

Question

I have setup buildbot to compile my Qt/C++ application with the /analyze flag.

However the analysis is also delving into the qt headers which I don't care about:

c:\qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.1\src\corelib\tools\qvector.h(547) : warning C6011: Dereferencing NULL pointer 'x.p': Lines: 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 491, 493, 497, 498, 499, 500, 503, 504, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 525, 545, 547

Whats the best way to exclude these files en mass?

(Please note I am not using the IDE, I am looking for a command line, switch or code change)

Blather

Possible duplicate of How to suppress warnings in external headers in Visual C++ – Appropriate

Answer 1

You can disable all code analysis warnings for a particular block of code using #pragma warning in your code. MSDN provides the following example:

#include <codeanalysis\warnings.h>
#pragma warning( push )
#pragma warning ( disable : ALL_CODE_ANALYSIS_WARNINGS )
#include <third-party include files here>
#pragma warning( pop )

(See "How to: Enable and Disable Code Analysis for Specific C/C++ Warnings" for more information.)

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to disable warnings from particular header files using only command line options.

Cockrell

Unfortunately, the pragma disables analysis warnings at the time a header gets included the first time. This means that if your third-party includes windows headers, you won't get any analysis warnings later. In my case, one such header is <boost/date_time/gregorian/gregorian.hpp> - of course the same applies to C++ std library headers. Which makes ALL_CODE_ANALYSIS_WARNINGS kind of useless, or again very hard to use... In this sense I find it easier to leave all warnings enabled and make use of the Error List output window, which allows grouping by path. – Morez

This is so elegant, thank you so much! @klaustriendl that could be fixed with PCH files I guess. – Adley

It is a terrible solution! We have hundreds of files with include of QT and others. I would expect the tool to have an option to exclude specific folders from results. Other tools do it! – Unstopped