"scan-build" needs a grouping of options so that, e.g., "-vvv" instead of "-v -v -v" will work

[llvmbot]

Bugzilla Link	8204
Version	trunk
OS	Linux
Reporter	LLVM Bugzilla Contributor
CC	@belkadan,@tkremenek,@xuzhongxing

Extended Description

Most GNU programs allow for grouping single character options without arguments but at the moment "scan-build" does not. One should be able to enter "-vvv" instead of "-v -v -v".

[tkremenek]

Using one of the Perl option handling modules might ease the maintenance and extension of scan-build (and other Perl programs). Professor Damian Conway discusses several in his book "Perl Best Practices" in Chapter 14 which is entirely devoted to command-line processing.

Point well taken, but scan-build probably just needs to be rewritten entirely. It does a half-baked job of interposing on a build, and doesn't really provide a general infrastructure for plugging in various handlers for doing post-processing of analysis results (for integration in various processes). We can do micro improvements like this, but the thing really just needs to die.

[llvmbot]

Using one of the Perl option handling modules might ease the maintenance and extension of scan-build (and other Perl programs). Professor Damian Conway discusses several in his book "Perl Best Practices" in Chapter 14 which is entirely devoted to command-line processing.

[llvmbot]

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