Source file src/cmd/vet/doc.go
1 // Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 /* 6 7 Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf 8 calls whose arguments do not align with the format string. Vet uses heuristics 9 that do not guarantee all reports are genuine problems, but it can find errors 10 not caught by the compilers. 11 12 Vet is normally invoked through the go command. 13 This command vets the package in the current directory: 14 15 go vet 16 17 whereas this one vets the packages whose path is provided: 18 19 go vet my/project/... 20 21 Use "go help packages" to see other ways of specifying which packages to vet. 22 23 Vet's exit code is non-zero for erroneous invocation of the tool or if a 24 problem was reported, and 0 otherwise. Note that the tool does not 25 check every possible problem and depends on unreliable heuristics, 26 so it should be used as guidance only, not as a firm indicator of 27 program correctness. 28 29 To list the available checks, run "go tool vet help": 30 31 asmdecl report mismatches between assembly files and Go declarations 32 assign check for useless assignments 33 atomic check for common mistakes using the sync/atomic package 34 bools check for common mistakes involving boolean operators 35 buildtag check that +build tags are well-formed and correctly located 36 cgocall detect some violations of the cgo pointer passing rules 37 composites check for unkeyed composite literals 38 copylocks check for locks erroneously passed by value 39 httpresponse check for mistakes using HTTP responses 40 loopclosure check references to loop variables from within nested functions 41 lostcancel check cancel func returned by context.WithCancel is called 42 nilfunc check for useless comparisons between functions and nil 43 printf check consistency of Printf format strings and arguments 44 shift check for shifts that equal or exceed the width of the integer 45 stdmethods check signature of methods of well-known interfaces 46 structtag check that struct field tags conform to reflect.StructTag.Get 47 tests check for common mistaken usages of tests and examples 48 unmarshal report passing non-pointer or non-interface values to unmarshal 49 unreachable check for unreachable code 50 unsafeptr check for invalid conversions of uintptr to unsafe.Pointer 51 unusedresult check for unused results of calls to some functions 52 53 For details and flags of a particular check, such as printf, run "go tool vet help printf". 54 55 By default, all checks are performed. 56 If any flags are explicitly set to true, only those tests are run. 57 Conversely, if any flag is explicitly set to false, only those tests are disabled. 58 Thus -printf=true runs the printf check, 59 and -printf=false runs all checks except the printf check. 60 61 For information on writing a new check, see golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis. 62 63 Core flags: 64 65 -c=N 66 display offending line plus N lines of surrounding context 67 -json 68 emit analysis diagnostics (and errors) in JSON format 69 70 */ 71 package main 72