C/C++/Objective-C analysis overview

An overview of the configuration required to analyze CFamily code in SonarQube Server.

The term CFamily refers to the collective group of C, C++, and Objective-C languages.

Supported versions

The level of support for a language is defined as follows:

• Fully supported: Analysis will complete. All the language features are understood and examined.

• Supported: Most language features are understood and examined but the version includes unsupported features. Analysis might break or provide incomplete results.

C

• C89, C99, C11, C17: Fully supported

• C23: Supported

• GNU extensions: Supported

C++

• C++20, C++23: Supported

• C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17: Fully supported

• GNU extensions: Supported

CFamily analysis

The next pages cover the following topics:

• Analysis modes

• Prerequisites

• Running the analysis

• Customizing the analysis

• Understanding the analysis

• Related pages

Check out this video on how to scan C / C++ code with SonarQube Server.