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=== \AdLint 3.2.14 is released (2014-05-10)

==== Changes since the 3.2.12 release

* Support function-like macro replacement with variable arguments.

See the file {ChangeLog}[https://github.com/yanoh/adlint/blob/master/ChangeLog]
for more details.

=== \AdLint 3.2.12 is released (2014-04-12)

==== Changes since the 3.2.10 release

* Fix the type and object model in order to correctly manage unnamed struct or
  union members
* Add examination package initializer
* Revise behavior of the CMA code structure collection so that an optional
  examination package can output its own special met-records

=== \AdLint 3.2.10 is released (2014-02-17)

==== Changes since the 3.2.8 release

* Add new templates for MSVC100 (Visual C++ 2010) as a C compiler on 32bit
  Windows

=== \AdLint 3.2.8 is released (2014-02-07)

==== Changes since the 3.2.6 release

* Fix preprocessor in order not to abend when a function-like macro generates a
  hexadecimal integer-constant from standalone prefix and number by the
  concatenation operator

=== \AdLint 3.2.6 is released (2014-01-09)

==== Changes since the 3.2.0 release

* Add patch of identifier to typedef-name translation mode in order not to
  abend when multiple typedefed types of struct/union/enum is redeclared in a
  single typedef declaration again
* Fix typo in C0001 message text
* Fix pattern matchig algorithm of the token substitution feature so that the
  pattern \`{ __adlint__any }' can match with both \`{}' and \`{ ... }'
* Fix group skip logic of the preprocessor in order to treat string-literals
  and character-constants in the skipping group correctly
* Revise the parser generation rule in order to accept extra semicolons in the
  global scope

=== \AdLint 3.2.0 is released (2013-08-28)

==== Changes since the 3.0.10 release

* Support experimental context-tracing feature so that the warning message can
  be complemented with the context messages

=== \AdLint 3.0.10 is released (2013-06-28)

==== Changes since the 3.0.8 release

* Fix incomplete identifier to typedef name translation when the declaring
  enumerator name is conflicting with the prior typedef name
* Add missing comment handling in the initial state of the preprocessing lexer
* Fix evaluation of the global constant variable definition in order not to
  ignore value of the initializer
* Revise pointer dereferencing behavior to successfully dereference a pointer
  only when the value of pointer variable is definite
* Improve heuristics of array subscript evaluation with indefinite subscript
* Fix controlling-expression deduction of iteration-statements in order to
  adopt the ordinary expression when no control breaking condition is found in
  the iteration body
* Remove unnecessary controlling expression evaluation at entering a
  do-statement
* Fix value-domain thinning condition to thin domains discarded by a
  break-statement in the iteration
* Fix bypassing inner-variable's value mutation in order to correctly propagate
  mutation to the outer-variable

=== \AdLint 3.0.8 is released (2013-05-31)

==== Changes since the 3.0.4 release

* Fix abend problem of preprocessor when a block comment is not terminated in
  the translation-unit
* Fix block comment handling in order not to dive into nested part when a
  single slash character appears before the comment terminator
* Fix infinite-loop problem of preprocessor when the #include directive appears
  with undefined macro
* Fix bad expression-constancy check in order to treat an expression derives an
  address-constant as a constant-expression
* Fix bad variable defining behavor in order to correctly evaluate
  sizeof-expression that refers defining variable in the initializer
* Revise specification of W0642 code check in order to warn about all the
  illegal address derivation from the object declared as \`register'
* Fix abend problem in parsing unnamed bit-field declaration
* Fix W0786 code check in order not to warn when a typedefed type which is same
  as signed or unsigned int is specified as a base of the bit-field
* Fix incomplete object cross-reference extraction in order to record object
  references within global scope in case of global function table
  initialization
* Fix incomplete object cross-reference graph and function call graph in order
  to correctly warn about useless objects
* Fix bad \`##' operator evaluation in order to comply with the ISO C99
  standard

=== \AdLint 3.0.4 is released (2013-04-12)

==== Changes since the 3.0.2 release

* Fix abend problem of adlint_chk command

=== \AdLint 3.0.2 is released (2013-04-12)

==== Changes since the 3.0.0 release

* Add missing transparency between a pointer to array and an array variable in
  expression evaluation
* Add missing transparency between a pointer function and a function in
  expression evaluation
* Clarify W0100 message text

=== \AdLint 3.0.0 is released (2013-03-27)

==== Changes since the 2.6.14 release

* Support pathname based code-exam selection
* Support message-class based code-check selection
* Support annotation based message suppression
* Add new field indicates whether the function is declared implicitly or
  explicitly to DCL(F) record of the metrics file
* Improve library interface to support concurrent analysis
* Fix W0003 code check not to misunderstand that the switch-statement has no
  default clause when the switch-statement contains consecutive case and
  default labels
* Fix W1061 code check in order to warn when an enum type of the argument
  expression is not consistent to one of the corresponding parameter
* Fix W1062 code check in order to warn when an enum type of the rhs operand is
  not consistent to one of the lhs operand
* Fix W1063 code check in order to warn when the function returns value of
  non-constant inconsistent enum-typed expression
* Fix W0023 code check in order to warn only when the pointer operand appears
  in an arithmetic expressions
* Fix W1073 code check in order no to warn when a function-call-expression is
  specified as the controlling expression of switch-statement
* Fix bad fall-through logic of switch-statement
* Fix missing literal_prefix of LIT record for the octal-constant
* Fix bad value domain management in order to correctly thin a value domain of
  the terminating execution path
* Support Ruby 2.0.0-p0

=== \AdLint 2.6.14 is released (2012-12-17)

==== Changes since the 2.6.12 release

* Revise specification of code checks about implicit conversion from or to
  \`char' type to clarify warning's intention
* Improve the library interface to easily integrate \AdLint with other products
* Support lint and \AdLint specific predefined macros; \`__LINT__', \`lint',
  \`__lint', \`__lint__', \`__ADLINT__', \`adlint', \`__adlint' and
  \`__adlint__'
* Revise code checks' output specification of W0051, W0052, W0491, W0492,
  W0703, W0704, W0770, W0771, W0787, W0788, W0789, W0790 and W1037 to add
  context messages telling where is the problematic pair identifiers

=== \AdLint 2.6.12 is released (2012-11-29)

==== Changes since the 2.6.10 release

* Fix abend problem of huge integer-constant evaluation
* Correct to run on Ruby 2.0.0dev (r37962) without warnings

=== \AdLint 2.6.10 is released (2012-11-08)

==== Changes since the 2.6.2 release

* Fix code checks so that duplicative messages of the same ID at the same
  location can be unique till the function step-in analysis is supported
* Fix W1069 detection to output a warning message at correct location when an
  incomplete if-else statements chain appears in a complete if-else-statement
* Fix W0708 detection not to warn when an address of the controlling variable
  is passes to a function in the controlling part of for-statement
* Fix W0534, W0585, W0611 and w0708 detections to correctly deduct the
  controlling variable
* Add missing notification of the controlling expression value reference
* Fix W0460 detection to output outermost variable name when the referencing
  variable is an array element or a member of struct or union

=== \AdLint 2.6.2 is released (2012-10-31)

==== Changes since the 2.6.0 release

* Fix compound-assignment-expression evaluation not to propagate initialization
  status of the rhs operand
* Fix bad traits file parser in order to parse compound pathname strings
  correctly on mswin
* Clarify W0082 message text by adding underlying type name of the operand
* Clarify W0578 and W0579 message texts by adding source and destination type
  names of the conversion
* Clarify W0650 message text by adding lhs type name of the shift-expression
* Clarify W0719 message text by adding lhs underlying type name of the
  shift-expression
* Clarify W1051 and W1052 message texts by adding type name of the arithmetic
  expression
* Fix the interpreter to place sequence-point at the end of the
  return-statement evaluation

=== \AdLint 2.6.0 is released (2012-10-22)

==== Changes since the 2.4.10 release

* Fix W0609 and w0610 detections not to over-warn about explicit controlling
  expressions of for-statements by adding workarounds for the interpreter
* Fix W0088 detection not to warn about controlling expression of for-statement
* Fix W0723 detection in order to correctly warn about signed \`-' expression
* Fix bad parameter type convertibility check and bad type convertibility check
  of pointer to arbitrary types to void-pointer
* Revise string representation of typedefed type so that message and metric
  show typedefed type name itself
* Clarify W9003 message text by adding destination type name of the implicit
  conversion

=== \AdLint 2.4.10 is released (2012-10-15)

==== Changes since the 2.4.6 release

* Add value version rollback feature so that the value version management is
  correctly given up at the end of the branch whose controlling expression is
  too complex
* Fix value version management in order to completely rollback all changes to
  values of all global variables
* Revise evaluation of sizeof-expression and alignof-expression not to evaluate
  operand expression actually
* Fix W0488, W0489, W0490, W0495, W0496, W0497, W0498, W0499, W0500, W0501 and
  W0502 detections to warn when a problematic expression is grouped entirely

=== \AdLint 2.4.6 is released (2012-10-09)

==== Changes since the 2.4.0 release

* Fix bad controlling statement evaluation in order to manage value domain of
  the controlling variable correctly
* Fix bad argument type specification of \`%s', \`%p' and \`%n'
  conversion-specifiers of *printf standard functions in order to detect W0635
  correctly

=== \AdLint 2.4.0 is released (2012-09-21)

==== Changes since the 2.2.0 release

* Fix W0425 detection not to warn when a selection-statement or a
  iteration-statement is written in a line
* Fix evaluation of sizeof expression to return \`size_t' value or \`unsigned
  long' value if size_t is not declared
* Fix evaluation of function-definition in order to refer symbols of return
  type and parameter types
* Revise format of the traits file in preparation for supporting warning
  suppression of 3rd-party headers imported in the target project tree
* Support compound pathname as an entry in the directory pathname list item of
  the traits file
* Fix abend problem when no examination package name is specified in the traits
  file
* Fix W0100 detection not to over-warn about variables updated in an
  iteration-statement
* Fix bad preprocess behavior when an empty argument is given to a
  function-like macro call which applies \`##' operator to the empty perameter
* Fix #include directive evaluation in order to correctly read header file with
  an absolute path when any include_path items are not specified

=== \AdLint 2.2.0 is released (2012-09-12)

==== Changes since the 2.0.10 release

* Fix W0431 and W0432 detections not to warn about displaced beginning of the
  line tokens following upon a function-like macro call
* Fix W0787 detection not to warn about a definition of the local variable with
  type which is different from one of previously defined variable in the other
  scope
* Clarify W0025 and W0026 message texts

=== \AdLint 2.0.10 is released (2012-09-06)

==== Changes since the 2.0.6 release

* Revise value domain management in order not to over-thin value domains of the
  controlling variables in complexly compounded controlling expression
* Support environment variable substitution in the traits file

=== \AdLint 2.0.6 is released (2012-08-30)

==== Changes since the 2.0.2 release

* Fix huge memory consumption problem when a multi-dimensional variable length
  array is defined without fully narrowed length
* Revise variable cross-reference extraction in order to output only about the
  outmost-variable when its element or member is accessed

=== \AdLint 2.0.2 is released (2012-08-28)

==== Changes since the 2.0.0 release

* Fix bad group skipping problem of the preprocessor when a conditional
  inclusion directive is commented out in the skipping group
* Add templates for gcc 4.6.3-1ubuntu5 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64bit)

=== \AdLint 2.0.0 is released (2012-08-22)

==== Changes since the 1.18.6 release

* In preparation for using optional source code examination packages, refine
  internal module structure and revise format of the traits file
* Revise format of the traits file and the message definition file in
  preparation for supporting selective code check feature
* Revise format of the traits file in preparation for supporting warning
  suppression of unconcerned headers such as system headers
* Add many more functional specifications of builtin code checks

=== \AdLint 1.18.6 is released (2012-08-14)

==== Changes since the 1.18.2 release

* Fix abend problem when a variable of typedefed incomplete array type is
  defined with an initializer

=== \AdLint 1.18.2 is released (2012-08-03)

==== Changes since the 1.18.0 release

* Fix gem installation problem on mswin

=== \AdLint 1.18.0 is released (2012-08-01)

==== Changes since the 1.16.0 release

* Add W0641 detection
* Add W0644 detection
* Add W0649 detection
* Add W0650 detection
* Add W0707 detection
* Add W0719 detection
* Add W0780 detection
* Add W0783 detection
* Add W0792 detection
* Add W0793 detection
* Add W0794 detection
* Add W0830 detection
* Add W0833 detection
* Add W0834 detection
* Add W1026 detection
* Add W1039 detection
* Add W1047 detection
* Add W1071 detection
* Fix W0459 detection to output outermost variable name when the uninitialized
  variable is an array element or a member of struct or union
* Fix W0705 and W0745 detections to warn about not only
  array-subscript-expressions but also indirection-expressions only when the
  subscript is constant
* Revise expression evaluation not to give up when a operand is typed as
  \`void'
* Revise arithmetic type resolution not to abort when one type is \`void'
* Fix declarator evaluation in order to construct a function object which
  returns a function pointer correctly when the function-definition written
  without typedefed function pointer
* Implement missing semantics of union object initialization
* Revise function-like macro replacement in order to evaluate \`#' operator
  makes an empty string-literal when the parameter corresponding to the operand
  has no argument
* Fix bad sequence-point timing of logical-and-expression and
  logical-or-expression
* Add extra notification of variable value reference in evaluation of
  cast-expression in order not to misunderstand that a return value of a
  function is discarded when the return value is casted before assigning to a
  variable
* Fix evaluation of prefix-increment-expression and prefix-decrement-expression
  to make rvalue of the new incremented or decremented value in order to comply
  with the ISO C99 standard

=== \AdLint 1.16.0 is released (2012-07-18)

==== Changes since the 1.14.0 release

* Add W0643 detection
* Add W0646 detection
* Add W0691 detection
* Add W0692 detection
* Add W0694 detection
* Add W0805 detection
* Add W0811 detection
* Add W1040 detection
* Add W1041 detection
* Add W1046 detection
* Add W1073 detection
* Add W1074 detection
* Add W1075 detection
* Add W1076 detection
* Add W1077 detection
* Add extra sequence-point notification in the conditional-expression in order
  not to over-warn about side-effects between sequence-points
* Add extra variable value reference notification not to discard function
  return values in the 2nd and 3rd expressions of the conditional-expression
* Add missing notification of variable value reference in comparison
  expressions

=== \AdLint 1.14.0 is released (2012-07-04)

==== Changes since the 1.12.0 release

* Add W0645 detection
* Add W0697 detection
* Add W0700 detection
* Add W1066 detection
* Add W1067 detection
* Add W1068 detection
* Add W1069 detection
* Add W1070 detection
* Add W1072 detection
* Fix W0104 detection not to warn when the unchanged parameter is typed with
  \`const volatile' qualifiers
* Add W0104, W0645, W0697, W0700, W1066, W1067, W1068, W1069, W1070 and W1072
  functional specifications

=== \AdLint 1.12.0 is released (2012-06-20)

==== Changes since the 1.10.0 release

* Add W0732 detection
* Add W0733 detection
* Add W0734 detection
* Add W0735 detection
* Add W9003 detection
* Revise the value domain narrowing in order not to over-narrow and
  under-narrow a value domain of the controlling variable
* Fix bad multiplication logic in order to detect W0723 and W1052 correctly
* Add unit specifications of domain of variables' value
* Add unit specifications of syntax tree of the C language
* Add W0093, W0687, W0688, W0689, W0690, W0732, W0733, W0734, W0735, W1052,
  W9001 and W9003 functional specifications
* Add W1066, W1067, W1068, W1069, W1070, W1071, W1072, W1073, W1074, W1075,
  W1076, W1077 and W9003 message definitions

=== \AdLint 1.10.0 is released (2012-06-06)

==== Changes since the 1.8.10 release

* Add W0716 detection
* Add W0717 detection
* Add W0718 detection
* Fix W0500 detection not to warn when two standalone binary arithmetic
  expressions are appears at 2nd and 3rd expressions of a
  conditional-expression
* Fix W0501 detection not to duplicate warnings about a conditional-expression
* Fix W0582, W0583 and W0584 detections in order to consider type
  convertibility correctly
* Fix W1031 detection not to warn when the declaration with \`static' and
  definition without storage-class-specifier
* Fix lack of sequence-point notification of controlling expressions
* Add unit specification of C type models
* Add W0001, W0002, W0003, W0007, W0010, W0013, W0109, W0583, W0606, W0698,
  W0699, W0703, W0716, W0717, W0718, W0723 and W1031 functional specifications

=== \AdLint 1.8.10 is released (2012-05-18)

==== Changes since the 1.8.2 release

* Fix bad narrowing logic of undefined value domain in order to detect W9001
  correctly
* Fix W0635 detection not to warn when the expected type of the conversion
  specifier is a pointer type and the corresponding argument's type is a
  pointer type whose base type is cv-qualified
* Fix W0583 detection not to warn when the argument type is a cv-qualified one
  of the corresponding parameter's type
* Fix W0112 detection not to warn about floating point relational-expressions
* Fix W0117 and W0118 detection not to misunderstand linkage of object
  definitions
* Fix W0101, W0102, W0103 and W0107 detections not to warn when an address of
  the parameter array variable (an alias of the caller's array) is going to be
  saved
* Fix W0828 detection not to warn when the member variable is a type of char
  array and the corresponding initializer is a string-literal-specifier
* Fix W0635 detection not to warn when the \`void *' argument passed as the
  \`%p' conversion specifier
* Fix degraded W0118 detection not to warn when the object declaration is in
  the header file and the same declaration is in the source file, too
* Fix bad value domain multiplication logic in order to correctly detect W0723
  about multiplicative-expressions
* Fix W0771 detection not to warn when declarations of the same object are in a
  source file
* Fix W0080 detection to warn when the file local static variable is defined
  without initializer
* Fix bad value domain multiplication logic in order to correctly detect W0608
  about multiplicative-expressions
* Fix degraded W0771 detection not to warn when declarations of the same object
  are in two or more files
* Fix degraded W0118 detection to warn when all declarations of an object are
  in the source file

=== \AdLint 1.8.2 is released (2012-05-08)

==== Changes since the 1.8.0 release

* Fix evaluation of array-subscript-expression not to convert the derived array
  object into a pointer in order to resolve a type of the nested
  array-subscript-expression correctly

=== \AdLint 1.8.0 is released (2012-04-27)

==== Changes since the 1.6.0 release

* Add W0607 detection
* Add W0608 detection
* Add W0625 detection
* Add W0632 detection
* Add W0633 detection
* Add W0634 detection
* Add W0642 detection
* Add W0711 detection
* Add W0712 detection
* Add W0713 detection
* Add W0714 detection
* Add W0715 detection
* Add W0832 detection
* Fix W0629 detection not to warn when the translation-unit local function is
  referred to derive a pointer to the function
* Fix W0459 and W0460 detections not to warn about inner variables owned by a
  temporary variable
* Fix W0461 and W0462 detections not to warn when the length omitted array
  parameter is specified as an argument
* Fix W1031 detection not to warn when the storage-class-specifier of the
  object declaration is explicitly specified and the storage-class-specifier of
  following object definition is omitted
* Fix W0581, W0582, W0583 and W0584 detections not to warn when the
  corresponding types of argument and parameter are array-array or
  array-pointer pair
* Fix W0581 detection to warn when the number of arguments in current function
  call is greater than the number of arguments in previous function calls
* Fix W0582, W0583 and W0584 detections to warn when the number of parameters
  is greater than the number of arguments
* Fix abend problem when the pathname of #include_next directive is not in the
  executing environment
* Support mswin path separator in #include or #include_next directives
* Fix bad FN_UELS (number of incomplete if-else-if statement chains) metric
  measurement
* Improve value version management of the abstract interpreter

=== \AdLint 1.6.0 is released (2012-04-06)

==== Changes since the 1.4.0 release

* Add W0541 detection
* Add W0573 detection
* Add W0579 detection
* Add W0685 detection
* Add W0686 detection
* Add W0781 detection
* Add W0787 detection
* Add W0788 detection
* Add W0789 detection
* Add W0807 detection
* Add W0808 detection
* Add W0809 detection
* Add W1030 detection
* Add W1053 detection
* Add W1054 detection
* Add W1055 detection
* Add W1056 detection
* Add W1057 detection
* Add W1058 detection
* Add W1059 detection
* Add W1060 detection
* Add W1061 detection
* Add W1062 detection
* Add W1063 detection
* Fix W0027 detection not to warn when a pointer variable is compared with NULL
  constant
* Fix W0728, W0729 and W0730 detections not to warn when the target is a
  variable of the other enum type
* Fix W0104 detection not to warn about invariant parameter of array type whose
  base type is qualified as const
* Fix bad W0031, W0100, W0104, W0459 and W0460 detections
* Fix bad FN_UNUV measurement
* Update the user's guide in Japanese
* Update the user's guide in English

=== \AdLint 1.4.0 is released (2012-03-29)

==== Changes since the 1.2.0 release

* Add W0606 detection
* Add W0687 detection
* Add W0695 detection
* Add W0698 detection
* Add W0699 detection
* Add W0720 detection
* Add W0721 detection
* Add W0722 detection
* Add W0723 detection
* Add W0726 detection
* Add W0727 detection
* Add W0728 detection
* Add W0729 detection
* Add W0730 detection
* Add W0731 detection
* Add W0737 detection
* Add W0738 detection
* Add W0739 detection
* Add W0740 detection
* Add W0741 detection
* Add W0743 detection
* Add W0801 detection
* Add W0806 detection
* Add W1033 detection
* Add W1064 detection
* Add W1065 detection
* Add missing implicit conversion of return-statement in order to detect W0727
  at an expression of return-statement
* Update the user's guide in Japanese
* Update the user's guide in English

=== \AdLint 1.2.0 is released (2012-03-21)

==== Changes since the 1.0.0 release

* Add W0597 detection
* Add W0598 detection
* Add W0599 detection
* Add W0600 detection
* Add W0688 detection
* Add W0689 detection
* Add W0690 detection
* Change schema version validation method of input YAML files
* Clarify message text of W0459 and W0460
* Revise specification of W0459 and W0460 detections not to warn when a pointer
  argument points to an uninitialized object
* Fix bad FN_UNUV metric measurement
* Update the user's guide in Japanese
* Update the user's guide in English

=== \AdLint 1.0.0 is released (2012-02-28)

This is the initial GA release of \AdLint.

==== Implemented features

* Single module analysis
* Cross module analysis
* 597 kinds of code checkings
* 14 kinds of code structure extractions
* 15 kinds of quality metric measurements