[clang-tidy] readability check for const params in declarations

Summary: Adds a clang-tidy warning for top-level consts in function declarations.

Reviewers: hokein, sbenza, alexfh

Subscribers: cfe-commits

Patch by Matt Kulukundis!

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18408

llvm-svn: 264856

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/AvoidConstParamsInDecls.h b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/AvoidConstParamsInDecls.h
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+//===--- AvoidConstParamsInDecls.h - clang-tidy----------------------------===//
+//
+//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
+//
+// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
+// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_READABILITY_AVOID_CONST_PARAMS_IN_DECLS_H
+#define LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_READABILITY_AVOID_CONST_PARAMS_IN_DECLS_H
+
+#include "../ClangTidy.h"
+
+namespace clang {
+namespace tidy {
+namespace readability {
+
+// Detect function declarations that have const value parameters and discourage
+// them.
+class AvoidConstParamsInDecls : public ClangTidyCheck {
+public:
+  using ClangTidyCheck::ClangTidyCheck;
+
+  void registerMatchers(ast_matchers::MatchFinder *Finder) override;
+  void check(const ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) override;
+};
+
+} // namespace readability
+} // namespace tidy
+} // namespace clang
+
+#endif // LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_READABILITY_AVOID_CONST_PARAMS_IN_DECLS_H