1.17.0

Added

• Support for the AtomicCmpExchange128 intrinsic routine.
• Support for the GetTypeKind intrinsic routine.
• Support for the OpenString intrinsic type.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getTypeParameters method.
• API: InterfaceTypeNode::getGuidExpression method.
• API: AttributeNode::getExpression method.

Changed

• Issue locations no longer span the entire routine declaration in RoutineName.
• Improve type modeling around the VarArg* intrinsic routines.

Deprecated

• API: InterfaceGuidNode node type.
• API: InterfaceTypeNode::getGuid method, use getGuidExpression instead.
• API: DelphiTokenType.GUID, as the associated InterfaceGuidNode is no longer parsed.

Fixed

• Name resolution failures on generic routine invocations where later type parameters are constrained by earlier type parameters.
• Type resolution failures on property attribute lists.
• Type resolution failures on implementation-local routine attribute lists.
• Type resolution failures on as casts where the type is returned from a routine invocation.
• Inaccurate type resolution when calling a constructor on a class reference type.
• Grammar ambiguity causing attributes to be misinterpreted as interface GUIDs.
• Failure to resolve invocations of System.IsManagedType where a value is passed.

1.16.0

Added

• Support for MSBuild item and item metadata expressions in project files.
• Debug logging for name resolution failures (enabled with sonar-scanner -X).
• ExhaustiveEnumCase analysis rule, which flags case statements that do not handle all values in an enumeration.
• IterationPastHighBound analysis rule, which flags for loops that iterate past the end of the collection.
• ExplicitBitwiseNot analysis rule, which flags potentially incorrect bitwise not operations.
• API: EnumeratorOccurrence type.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getEnumeratorOccurrence method.
• API: TypeOfTypeNode::getTypeReferenceNode method.
• API: NameReferenceNode::getFirstName method.
• API: DelphiTokenType.TYPE_CONSTRAINT token type.
• API: ConstraintNode node type.
• API: ClassConstraintNode node type.
• API: ConstructorConstraintNode node type.
• API: RecordConstraintNode node type.
• API: TypeConstraintNode node type.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getConstraintNodes method.
• API: TypeParameterType::constraintItems method.
• API: Constraint type.
• API: Constraint.ClassConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.ConstructorConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.RecordConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.TypeConstraint type.

Changed

• Detect tab-indented multiline strings in TabulationCharacter.
• Improve support for evaluating name references in compiler directive expressions.
• Improve overload resolution in cases involving generic type parameter constraints.
• Improve handling for MSBuild properties, items, and conditional evaluation.
• Perform best-effort name resolution of arguments to unresolved routines or array properties, which improves analysis quality in cases where symbol information is incomplete.

Deprecated

• API: ForInStatementNode::getGetEnumeratorDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getMoveNextDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getCurrentDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getTypeConstraintNodes method, use getConstraintNodes instead.
• API: TypeParameterType::constraints method, use constraintItems instead.

Fixed

• False positives on enumerable method GetEnumerator in UnusedRoutine.
• False positives on enumerator method MoveNext in UnusedRoutine.
• False positives on enumerator property Current in UnusedProperty.
• False positives on enums that are never referenced by name (but have used values) in UnusedType.
• Name resolution failures in legacy initialization sections referencing the implementation section.
• Name resolution failures when accessing ancestors of enclosing types from nested type methods.
• Name resolution failures on invocations of methods with generic open array parameters.
• Name resolution failures around Create calls on types with constructor constraints.
• Name resolution failures on read, write, and stored specifiers of indexed properties.
• Name resolution failures on routine references assigned to a var/const declaration.
• Name resolution failures on routine references in constant arrays.
• Type resolution failures on array expressions nested within multidimensional constant arrays.
• Incorrect file position calculation for multiline string tokens.
• Analysis errors around type of type declarations.

1.15.0

Added

• ParsingError analysis rule, which flags files where parsing failures occurred.
• Support for the WEAK_NATIVEINT symbol, which is defined from Delphi 12 onward.
• Support for undocumented intrinsics usable within varargs routines:
  • VarArgStart
  • VarArgGetValue
  • VarArgCopy
  • VarArgEnd

Changed

• Exclude types annotated with attributes in UnusedType.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within include files.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within compiler directives.

Deprecated

• API: SwitchDirective.SwitchKind.TYPEADDRESS enum member, use TYPEDADDRESS instead.

Fixed

• Exceptions from empty structures (e.g., if) in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce and RedundantJump.
• False positives from case statements in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce.
• False positives from nested finally-except blocks in RedundantJump.
• False positives around wrapped type declarations in VisibilityKeywordIndentation.
• False negatives around inline var and const in PlatformDependentTruncation.
• Trailing whitespace within comments not recognized in TrailingWhitespace.
• Overload resolution failures on the variant overload of the Copy intrinsic.
• Several compiler directives were not being recognized:
  • E
  • F
  • K
  • N
  • S
  • ALLOWBIND
  • ALLOWISOLATION
  • HIGHENTROPYVA
  • HIGHCHARUNICODE
  • LARGEADDRESSAWARE
  • MAXPAGESIZE
  • NXCOMPAT
  • SONAME
  • SOPREFIX
  • SOSUFFIX
  • SOVERSION
  • STACKCHECKS
  • STRINGCHECKS
  • TSAWARE
  • TYPEDADDRESS

1.14.1

Fixed

• File pointer errors around >= and <= tokens.

1.14.0

Added

• RedundantJump analysis rule, which flags redundant jump statements, e.g., Continue, Exit.
• LoopExecutingAtMostOnce analysis rule, which flags loop statements that can execute at most once.
• excludedNames rule property to the MixedNames rule.
• API: RepeatStatementNode::getGuardExpression method.
• API: RepeatStatementNode::getStatementList method.
• API: CaseStatementNode::getSelectorExpression method.
• API: CaseItemStatementNode::getStatement method.

Fixed

• Parsing errors where adjacent > and = tokens were wrongly interpreted as the >= operator.
• False-positives within assignment statements in IndexLastListElement.

1.13.0

Added

• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getDeclarationSection method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getStatementBlock method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::isEmpty method.

Changed

• Include the global browsing path in unit import resolution.
• Reprioritize the analysis search path in the following order (highest to lowest):
  • Referenced project files (DCCReference)
  • Search path (DCC_UnitSearchPath)
  • Debugger source path (Debugger_DebugSourcePath)
  • Library path (DelphiLibraryPath/DelphiTranslatedLibraryPath)
  • Browsing path (DelphiBrowsingPath)
  • Standard library
  • Analysis source files (sonar.sources)
• Empty anonymous methods are now ignored in EmptyBlock.
• Empty anonymous methods are now flagged in EmptyRoutine.

1.12.2

Fixed

• Incorrect case-sensitive treatment of file names in coverage reports.

1.12.1

Fixed

• Various intrinsic routines had incorrect signatures around dynamic and open arrays.
• False positives around platform-dependent binary expressions in PlatformDependentTruncation.
• Incorrect type resolution around array property accesses.

1.12.0

Added

• API: DelphiCheckContext::getUri method.

Fixed

• Parsing errors on semicolon-delimited generic type parameters in routine implementation headers.
• Incorrect return types for Length, High, and Low on open/dynamic arrays depending on the compiler version and toolchain.
• Name resolution failures on explicit references to default array properties with overloads on ancestor types.

1.11.0

Added

• MissingRaise analysis rule, which flags exception constructions for which raise has been omitted.
• API: ProceduralType::directives method.
• API: ProceduralTypeNode::getDirectives method.
• API: ProceduralTypeNode::hasDirective method.
• API: ProceduralTypeHeadingNode::getDirectives method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getAnonymousMethodHeading method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::getDirectives method.
• API: AnonymousMethodNode::hasDirective method.
• API: AnonymousMethodHeadingNode node type.
• API: DelphiTokenType.ANONYMOUS_METHOD token type.
• API: DelphiTokenType.ANONYMOUS_METHOD_HEADING token type.

Fixed

• Parsing errors on implementation keywords nested in conditional branches.
• Parsing errors on anonymous methods with routine directives (like calling conventions).
• IndexOutOfBoundsException errors around procedural types declared with varargs in VariableInitialization.