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IAR Embedded Workbench for RX 5.20

External Analyzer dialog box

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What do you want to do?

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The External Analyzer dialog box is available by choosing Tools>Options>Project>External Analyzers.

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Use this dialog box to configure the invocation of the external analyzer that you want to add to the standard build toolchain.

External analyzers operate on C/C++ source code in the user project. Header files or assembler source code files are not analyzed.

For more information, see Getting started using external analyzers.

Name

Specify the name of the external analyzer. Note that the name must be unique.

Path

Specify the path to the analyzer’s executable file. A browse button is available.

Arguments

Specify the arguments that you want to pass to the analyzer.

Note that you can use argument variables for specifying the arguments, see Argument variables.

Location

Specify a regular expression used for finding source file locations. The regular expression is applied to each output line which will appear as text in the Build Log window. You can double-click a line that matches the regular expression you specify.

You can use the argument variables $FILE_NAME$, $LINE_NUMBER$, and $COLUMN_NUMBER$ to identify a filename, line number, and column number, respectively. Choose one of the predefined expressions:

  • \"?$FILE_NAME$\"?:$LINE_NUMBER$ will, for example, match a location of the form file.c:17

  • \"?$FILE_NAME$\"? +$LINE_NUMBER$ will, for example, match a location of the form file.c17

  • \"?$FILE_NAME$\"? will, for example, match a location of the form file.c

Alternatively, you can specify your own expression. For example, the regular expression Msg: $FILE_NAME$ @ $LINE_NUMBER$, when applied to the output string Msg:MySourceFile.c @ 32, will identify the file as MySourceFile.c, and the line number as 32.

Warning

Any output line that matches this expression is tagged with the warning symbol.

For example, the expression (?i)warning(?-i): will identify any line that contains the string warning: (regardless of case) as a warning.

Error

Any output line that matches this expression is tagged with the error symbol. Errors have precedence over warnings.

For example, the expression (?i)error(?-i): will identify any line that contains the string error: (regardless of case) as an error.