7.3.1 Skipping syntax tests

Sometimes it is not desirable to run an specific test in an specific source file. Some typical situations are:

• A false positive of the test.
• A positive on code that we are not maintaining (for example, any source file in the lib/ directory).

In order to disable the execution of a syntax check in an specific file, the name of the source file should be added to the file .x-RULE, where RULE is the name of the syntax check. An example is the file .x-sc_avoid_if_before_free, that affects the syntax check implemented in build-aux/sc_avoid_if_before_free.

Note that the .x-RULE files should not contain empty lines.

In order to disable the execution of a syntax check for any file, just add the name of the syntax check to the local-checks-to-skip variable in cfg.mk.