WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/style/checkers/cpp.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Torch Mobile Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (C) 2010 Chris Jerdonek (cjerdonek@webkit.org)
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+# met:
+#
+#    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+#    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+# copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
+# in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+# distribution.
+#    * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its
+# contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
+# this software without specific prior written permission.
+#
+# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+# "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+# LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+# OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+# SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+# LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+# THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+# (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+# OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+# This is the modified version of Google's cpplint. The original code is
+# http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cpplint/cpplint.py
+
+"""Support for check-webkit-style."""
+
+import codecs
+import math  # for log
+import os
+import os.path
+import re
+import sre_compile
+import string
+import sys
+import unicodedata
+
+
+# Headers that we consider STL headers.
+_STL_HEADERS = frozenset([
+    'algobase.h', 'algorithm', 'alloc.h', 'bitset', 'deque', 'exception',
+    'function.h', 'functional', 'hash_map', 'hash_map.h', 'hash_set',
+    'hash_set.h', 'iterator', 'list', 'list.h', 'map', 'memory', 'pair.h',
+    'pthread_alloc', 'queue', 'set', 'set.h', 'sstream', 'stack',
+    'stl_alloc.h', 'stl_relops.h', 'type_traits.h',
+    'utility', 'vector', 'vector.h',
+    ])
+
+
+# Non-STL C++ system headers.
+_CPP_HEADERS = frozenset([
+    'algo.h', 'builtinbuf.h', 'bvector.h', 'cassert', 'cctype',
+    'cerrno', 'cfloat', 'ciso646', 'climits', 'clocale', 'cmath',
+    'complex', 'complex.h', 'csetjmp', 'csignal', 'cstdarg', 'cstddef',
+    'cstdio', 'cstdlib', 'cstring', 'ctime', 'cwchar', 'cwctype',
+    'defalloc.h', 'deque.h', 'editbuf.h', 'exception', 'fstream',
+    'fstream.h', 'hashtable.h', 'heap.h', 'indstream.h', 'iomanip',
+    'iomanip.h', 'ios', 'iosfwd', 'iostream', 'iostream.h', 'istream.h',
+    'iterator.h', 'limits', 'map.h', 'multimap.h', 'multiset.h',
+    'numeric', 'ostream.h', 'parsestream.h', 'pfstream.h', 'PlotFile.h',
+    'procbuf.h', 'pthread_alloc.h', 'rope', 'rope.h', 'ropeimpl.h',
+    'SFile.h', 'slist', 'slist.h', 'stack.h', 'stdexcept',
+    'stdiostream.h', 'streambuf.h', 'stream.h', 'strfile.h', 'string',
+    'strstream', 'strstream.h', 'tempbuf.h', 'tree.h', 'typeinfo', 'valarray',
+    ])
+
+
+# Assertion macros.  These are defined in base/logging.h and
+# testing/base/gunit.h.  Note that the _M versions need to come first
+# for substring matching to work.
+_CHECK_MACROS = [
+    'DCHECK', 'CHECK',
+    'EXPECT_TRUE_M', 'EXPECT_TRUE',
+    'ASSERT_TRUE_M', 'ASSERT_TRUE',
+    'EXPECT_FALSE_M', 'EXPECT_FALSE',
+    'ASSERT_FALSE_M', 'ASSERT_FALSE',
+    ]
+
+# Replacement macros for CHECK/DCHECK/EXPECT_TRUE/EXPECT_FALSE
+_CHECK_REPLACEMENT = dict([(m, {}) for m in _CHECK_MACROS])
+
+for op, replacement in [('==', 'EQ'), ('!=', 'NE'),
+                        ('>=', 'GE'), ('>', 'GT'),
+                        ('<=', 'LE'), ('<', 'LT')]:
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['DCHECK'][op] = 'DCHECK_%s' % replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['CHECK'][op] = 'CHECK_%s' % replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['EXPECT_TRUE'][op] = 'EXPECT_%s' % replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['ASSERT_TRUE'][op] = 'ASSERT_%s' % replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['EXPECT_TRUE_M'][op] = 'EXPECT_%s_M' % replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['ASSERT_TRUE_M'][op] = 'ASSERT_%s_M' % replacement
+
+for op, inv_replacement in [('==', 'NE'), ('!=', 'EQ'),
+                            ('>=', 'LT'), ('>', 'LE'),
+                            ('<=', 'GT'), ('<', 'GE')]:
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['EXPECT_FALSE'][op] = 'EXPECT_%s' % inv_replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['ASSERT_FALSE'][op] = 'ASSERT_%s' % inv_replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['EXPECT_FALSE_M'][op] = 'EXPECT_%s_M' % inv_replacement
+    _CHECK_REPLACEMENT['ASSERT_FALSE_M'][op] = 'ASSERT_%s_M' % inv_replacement
+
+
+# These constants define types of headers for use with
+# _IncludeState.check_next_include_order().
+_CONFIG_HEADER = 0
+_PRIMARY_HEADER = 1
+_OTHER_HEADER = 2
+_MOC_HEADER = 3
+
+
+# The regexp compilation caching is inlined in all regexp functions for
+# performance reasons; factoring it out into a separate function turns out
+# to be noticeably expensive.
+_regexp_compile_cache = {}
+
+
+def match(pattern, s):
+    """Matches the string with the pattern, caching the compiled regexp."""
+    if not pattern in _regexp_compile_cache:
+        _regexp_compile_cache[pattern] = sre_compile.compile(pattern)
+    return _regexp_compile_cache[pattern].match(s)
+
+
+def search(pattern, s):
+    """Searches the string for the pattern, caching the compiled regexp."""
+    if not pattern in _regexp_compile_cache:
+        _regexp_compile_cache[pattern] = sre_compile.compile(pattern)
+    return _regexp_compile_cache[pattern].search(s)
+
+
+def sub(pattern, replacement, s):
+    """Substitutes occurrences of a pattern, caching the compiled regexp."""
+    if not pattern in _regexp_compile_cache:
+        _regexp_compile_cache[pattern] = sre_compile.compile(pattern)
+    return _regexp_compile_cache[pattern].sub(replacement, s)
+
+
+def subn(pattern, replacement, s):
+    """Substitutes occurrences of a pattern, caching the compiled regexp."""
+    if not pattern in _regexp_compile_cache:
+        _regexp_compile_cache[pattern] = sre_compile.compile(pattern)
+    return _regexp_compile_cache[pattern].subn(replacement, s)
+
+
+def up_to_unmatched_closing_paren(s):
+    """Splits a string into two parts up to first unmatched ')'.
+
+    Args:
+      s: a string which is a substring of line after '('
+      (e.g., "a == (b + c))").
+
+    Returns:
+      A pair of strings (prefix before first unmatched ')',
+      remainder of s after first unmatched ')'), e.g.,
+      up_to_unmatched_closing_paren("a == (b + c)) { ")
+      returns "a == (b + c)", " {".
+      Returns None, None if there is no unmatched ')'
+
+    """
+    i = 1
+    for pos, c in enumerate(s):
+      if c == '(':
+        i += 1
+      elif c == ')':
+        i -= 1
+        if i == 0:
+          return s[:pos], s[pos + 1:]
+    return None, None
+
+class _IncludeState(dict):
+    """Tracks line numbers for includes, and the order in which includes appear.
+
+    As a dict, an _IncludeState object serves as a mapping between include
+    filename and line number on which that file was included.
+
+    Call check_next_include_order() once for each header in the file, passing
+    in the type constants defined above. Calls in an illegal order will
+    raise an _IncludeError with an appropriate error message.
+
+    """
+    # self._section will move monotonically through this set. If it ever
+    # needs to move backwards, check_next_include_order will raise an error.
+    _INITIAL_SECTION = 0
+    _CONFIG_SECTION = 1
+    _PRIMARY_SECTION = 2
+    _OTHER_SECTION = 3
+
+    _TYPE_NAMES = {
+        _CONFIG_HEADER: 'WebCore config.h',
+        _PRIMARY_HEADER: 'header this file implements',
+        _OTHER_HEADER: 'other header',
+        _MOC_HEADER: 'moc file',
+        }
+    _SECTION_NAMES = {
+        _INITIAL_SECTION: "... nothing.",
+        _CONFIG_SECTION: "WebCore config.h.",
+        _PRIMARY_SECTION: 'a header this file implements.',
+        _OTHER_SECTION: 'other header.',
+        }
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        dict.__init__(self)
+        self._section = self._INITIAL_SECTION
+        self._visited_primary_section = False
+        self.header_types = dict();
+
+    def visited_primary_section(self):
+        return self._visited_primary_section
+
+    def check_next_include_order(self, header_type, file_is_header):
+        """Returns a non-empty error message if the next header is out of order.
+
+        This function also updates the internal state to be ready to check
+        the next include.
+
+        Args:
+          header_type: One of the _XXX_HEADER constants defined above.
+          file_is_header: Whether the file that owns this _IncludeState is itself a header
+
+        Returns:
+          The empty string if the header is in the right order, or an
+          error message describing what's wrong.
+
+        """
+        if header_type == _CONFIG_HEADER and file_is_header:
+            return 'Header file should not contain WebCore config.h.'
+        if header_type == _PRIMARY_HEADER and file_is_header:
+            return 'Header file should not contain itself.'
+        if header_type == _MOC_HEADER:
+            return ''
+
+        error_message = ''
+        if self._section != self._OTHER_SECTION:
+            before_error_message = ('Found %s before %s' %
+                                    (self._TYPE_NAMES[header_type],
+                                     self._SECTION_NAMES[self._section + 1]))
+        after_error_message = ('Found %s after %s' %
+                                (self._TYPE_NAMES[header_type],
+                                 self._SECTION_NAMES[self._section]))
+
+        if header_type == _CONFIG_HEADER:
+            if self._section >= self._CONFIG_SECTION:
+                error_message = after_error_message
+            self._section = self._CONFIG_SECTION
+        elif header_type == _PRIMARY_HEADER:
+            if self._section >= self._PRIMARY_SECTION:
+                error_message = after_error_message
+            elif self._section < self._CONFIG_SECTION:
+                error_message = before_error_message
+            self._section = self._PRIMARY_SECTION
+            self._visited_primary_section = True
+        else:
+            assert header_type == _OTHER_HEADER
+            if not file_is_header and self._section < self._PRIMARY_SECTION:
+                error_message = before_error_message
+            self._section = self._OTHER_SECTION
+
+        return error_message
+
+
+class _FunctionState(object):
+    """Tracks current function name and the number of lines in its body.
+
+    Attributes:
+      min_confidence: The minimum confidence level to use while checking style.
+
+    """
+
+    _NORMAL_TRIGGER = 250  # for --v=0, 500 for --v=1, etc.
+    _TEST_TRIGGER = 400    # about 50% more than _NORMAL_TRIGGER.
+
+    def __init__(self, min_confidence):
+        self.min_confidence = min_confidence
+        self.current_function = ''
+        self.in_a_function = False
+        self.lines_in_function = 0
+
+    def begin(self, function_name):
+        """Start analyzing function body.
+
+        Args:
+            function_name: The name of the function being tracked.
+        """
+        self.in_a_function = True
+        self.lines_in_function = 0
+        self.current_function = function_name
+
+    def count(self):
+        """Count line in current function body."""
+        if self.in_a_function:
+            self.lines_in_function += 1
+
+    def check(self, error, line_number):
+        """Report if too many lines in function body.
+
+        Args:
+          error: The function to call with any errors found.
+          line_number: The number of the line to check.
+        """
+        if match(r'T(EST|est)', self.current_function):
+            base_trigger = self._TEST_TRIGGER
+        else:
+            base_trigger = self._NORMAL_TRIGGER
+        trigger = base_trigger * 2 ** self.min_confidence
+
+        if self.lines_in_function > trigger:
+            error_level = int(math.log(self.lines_in_function / base_trigger, 2))
+            # 50 => 0, 100 => 1, 200 => 2, 400 => 3, 800 => 4, 1600 => 5, ...
+            if error_level > 5:
+                error_level = 5
+            error(line_number, 'readability/fn_size', error_level,
+                  'Small and focused functions are preferred:'
+                  ' %s has %d non-comment lines'
+                  ' (error triggered by exceeding %d lines).'  % (
+                      self.current_function, self.lines_in_function, trigger))
+
+    def end(self):
+        """Stop analizing function body."""
+        self.in_a_function = False
+
+
+class _IncludeError(Exception):
+    """Indicates a problem with the include order in a file."""
+    pass
+
+
+def is_c_or_objective_c(file_extension):
+   """Return whether the file extension corresponds to C or Objective-C.
+
+   Args:
+     file_extension: The file extension without the leading dot.
+
+   """
+   return file_extension in ['c', 'm']
+
+
+class FileInfo:
+    """Provides utility functions for filenames.
+
+    FileInfo provides easy access to the components of a file's path
+    relative to the project root.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, filename):
+        self._filename = filename
+
+    def full_name(self):
+        """Make Windows paths like Unix."""
+        return os.path.abspath(self._filename).replace('\\', '/')
+
+    def repository_name(self):
+        """Full name after removing the local path to the repository.
+
+        If we have a real absolute path name here we can try to do something smart:
+        detecting the root of the checkout and truncating /path/to/checkout from
+        the name so that we get header guards that don't include things like
+        "C:\Documents and Settings\..." or "/home/username/..." in them and thus
+        people on different computers who have checked the source out to different
+        locations won't see bogus errors.
+        """
+        fullname = self.full_name()
+
+        if os.path.exists(fullname):
+            project_dir = os.path.dirname(fullname)
+
+            if os.path.exists(os.path.join(project_dir, ".svn")):
+                # If there's a .svn file in the current directory, we
+                # recursively look up the directory tree for the top
+                # of the SVN checkout
+                root_dir = project_dir
+                one_up_dir = os.path.dirname(root_dir)
+                while os.path.exists(os.path.join(one_up_dir, ".svn")):
+                    root_dir = os.path.dirname(root_dir)
+                    one_up_dir = os.path.dirname(one_up_dir)
+
+                prefix = os.path.commonprefix([root_dir, project_dir])
+                return fullname[len(prefix) + 1:]
+
+            # Not SVN? Try to find a git top level directory by
+            # searching up from the current path.
+            root_dir = os.path.dirname(fullname)
+            while (root_dir != os.path.dirname(root_dir)
+                   and not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root_dir, ".git"))):
+                root_dir = os.path.dirname(root_dir)
+                if os.path.exists(os.path.join(root_dir, ".git")):
+                    prefix = os.path.commonprefix([root_dir, project_dir])
+                    return fullname[len(prefix) + 1:]
+
+        # Don't know what to do; header guard warnings may be wrong...
+        return fullname
+
+    def split(self):
+        """Splits the file into the directory, basename, and extension.
+
+        For 'chrome/browser/browser.cpp', Split() would
+        return ('chrome/browser', 'browser', '.cpp')
+
+        Returns:
+          A tuple of (directory, basename, extension).
+        """
+
+        googlename = self.repository_name()
+        project, rest = os.path.split(googlename)
+        return (project,) + os.path.splitext(rest)
+
+    def base_name(self):
+        """File base name - text after the final slash, before the final period."""
+        return self.split()[1]
+
+    def extension(self):
+        """File extension - text following the final period."""
+        return self.split()[2]
+
+    def no_extension(self):
+        """File has no source file extension."""
+        return '/'.join(self.split()[0:2])
+
+    def is_source(self):
+        """File has a source file extension."""
+        return self.extension()[1:] in ('c', 'cc', 'cpp', 'cxx')
+
+
+# Matches standard C++ escape esequences per 2.13.2.3 of the C++ standard.
+_RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_ESCAPES = re.compile(
+    r'\\([abfnrtv?"\\\']|\d+|x[0-9a-fA-F]+)')
+# Matches strings.  Escape codes should already be removed by ESCAPES.
+_RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_DOUBLE_QUOTES = re.compile(r'"[^"]*"')
+# Matches characters.  Escape codes should already be removed by ESCAPES.
+_RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_SINGLE_QUOTES = re.compile(r"'.'")
+# Matches multi-line C++ comments.
+# This RE is a little bit more complicated than one might expect, because we
+# have to take care of space removals tools so we can handle comments inside
+# statements better.
+# The current rule is: We only clear spaces from both sides when we're at the
+# end of the line. Otherwise, we try to remove spaces from the right side,
+# if this doesn't work we try on left side but only if there's a non-character
+# on the right.
+_RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_C_COMMENTS = re.compile(
+    r"""(\s*/\*.*\*/\s*$|
+            /\*.*\*/\s+|
+         \s+/\*.*\*/(?=\W)|
+            /\*.*\*/)""", re.VERBOSE)
+
+
+def is_cpp_string(line):
+    """Does line terminate so, that the next symbol is in string constant.
+
+    This function does not consider single-line nor multi-line comments.
+
+    Args:
+      line: is a partial line of code starting from the 0..n.
+
+    Returns:
+      True, if next character appended to 'line' is inside a
+      string constant.
+    """
+
+    line = line.replace(r'\\', 'XX')  # after this, \\" does not match to \"
+    return ((line.count('"') - line.count(r'\"') - line.count("'\"'")) & 1) == 1
+
+
+def find_next_multi_line_comment_start(lines, line_index):
+    """Find the beginning marker for a multiline comment."""
+    while line_index < len(lines):
+        if lines[line_index].strip().startswith('/*'):
+            # Only return this marker if the comment goes beyond this line
+            if lines[line_index].strip().find('*/', 2) < 0:
+                return line_index
+        line_index += 1
+    return len(lines)
+
+
+def find_next_multi_line_comment_end(lines, line_index):
+    """We are inside a comment, find the end marker."""
+    while line_index < len(lines):
+        if lines[line_index].strip().endswith('*/'):
+            return line_index
+        line_index += 1
+    return len(lines)
+
+
+def remove_multi_line_comments_from_range(lines, begin, end):
+    """Clears a range of lines for multi-line comments."""
+    # Having // dummy comments makes the lines non-empty, so we will not get
+    # unnecessary blank line warnings later in the code.
+    for i in range(begin, end):
+        lines[i] = '// dummy'
+
+
+def remove_multi_line_comments(lines, error):
+    """Removes multiline (c-style) comments from lines."""
+    line_index = 0
+    while line_index < len(lines):
+        line_index_begin = find_next_multi_line_comment_start(lines, line_index)
+        if line_index_begin >= len(lines):
+            return
+        line_index_end = find_next_multi_line_comment_end(lines, line_index_begin)
+        if line_index_end >= len(lines):
+            error(line_index_begin + 1, 'readability/multiline_comment', 5,
+                  'Could not find end of multi-line comment')
+            return
+        remove_multi_line_comments_from_range(lines, line_index_begin, line_index_end + 1)
+        line_index = line_index_end + 1
+
+
+def cleanse_comments(line):
+    """Removes //-comments and single-line C-style /* */ comments.
+
+    Args:
+      line: A line of C++ source.
+
+    Returns:
+      The line with single-line comments removed.
+    """
+    comment_position = line.find('//')
+    if comment_position != -1 and not is_cpp_string(line[:comment_position]):
+        line = line[:comment_position]
+    # get rid of /* ... */
+    return _RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_C_COMMENTS.sub('', line)
+
+
+class CleansedLines(object):
+    """Holds 3 copies of all lines with different preprocessing applied to them.
+
+    1) elided member contains lines without strings and comments,
+    2) lines member contains lines without comments, and
+    3) raw member contains all the lines without processing.
+    All these three members are of <type 'list'>, and of the same length.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, lines):
+        self.elided = []
+        self.lines = []
+        self.raw_lines = lines
+        self._num_lines = len(lines)
+        for line_number in range(len(lines)):
+            self.lines.append(cleanse_comments(lines[line_number]))
+            elided = self.collapse_strings(lines[line_number])
+            self.elided.append(cleanse_comments(elided))
+
+    def num_lines(self):
+        """Returns the number of lines represented."""
+        return self._num_lines
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def collapse_strings(elided):
+        """Collapses strings and chars on a line to simple "" or '' blocks.
+
+        We nix strings first so we're not fooled by text like '"http://"'
+
+        Args:
+          elided: The line being processed.
+
+        Returns:
+          The line with collapsed strings.
+        """
+        if not _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.match(elided):
+            # Remove escaped characters first to make quote/single quote collapsing
+            # basic.  Things that look like escaped characters shouldn't occur
+            # outside of strings and chars.
+            elided = _RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_ESCAPES.sub('', elided)
+            elided = _RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_SINGLE_QUOTES.sub("''", elided)
+            elided = _RE_PATTERN_CLEANSE_LINE_DOUBLE_QUOTES.sub('""', elided)
+        return elided
+
+
+def close_expression(clean_lines, line_number, pos):
+    """If input points to ( or { or [, finds the position that closes it.
+
+    If lines[line_number][pos] points to a '(' or '{' or '[', finds the the
+    line_number/pos that correspond to the closing of the expression.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      pos: A position on the line.
+
+    Returns:
+      A tuple (line, line_number, pos) pointer *past* the closing brace, or
+      (line, len(lines), -1) if we never find a close.  Note we ignore
+      strings and comments when matching; and the line we return is the
+      'cleansed' line at line_number.
+    """
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+    start_character = line[pos]
+    if start_character not in '({[':
+        return (line, clean_lines.num_lines(), -1)
+    if start_character == '(':
+        end_character = ')'
+    if start_character == '[':
+        end_character = ']'
+    if start_character == '{':
+        end_character = '}'
+
+    num_open = line.count(start_character) - line.count(end_character)
+    while line_number < clean_lines.num_lines() and num_open > 0:
+        line_number += 1
+        line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+        num_open += line.count(start_character) - line.count(end_character)
+    # OK, now find the end_character that actually got us back to even
+    endpos = len(line)
+    while num_open >= 0:
+        endpos = line.rfind(')', 0, endpos)
+        num_open -= 1                 # chopped off another )
+    return (line, line_number, endpos + 1)
+
+
+def check_for_copyright(lines, error):
+    """Logs an error if no Copyright message appears at the top of the file."""
+
+    # We'll say it should occur by line 10. Don't forget there's a
+    # dummy line at the front.
+    for line in xrange(1, min(len(lines), 11)):
+        if re.search(r'Copyright', lines[line], re.I):
+            break
+    else:                       # means no copyright line was found
+        error(0, 'legal/copyright', 5,
+              'No copyright message found.  '
+              'You should have a line: "Copyright [year] <Copyright Owner>"')
+
+
+def get_header_guard_cpp_variable(filename):
+    """Returns the CPP variable that should be used as a header guard.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of a C++ header file.
+
+    Returns:
+      The CPP variable that should be used as a header guard in the
+      named file.
+
+    """
+
+    # Restores original filename in case that style checker is invoked from Emacs's
+    # flymake.
+    filename = re.sub(r'_flymake\.h$', '.h', filename)
+
+    return sub(r'[-.\s]', '_', os.path.basename(filename))
+
+
+def check_for_header_guard(filename, lines, error):
+    """Checks that the file contains a header guard.
+
+    Logs an error if no #ifndef header guard is present.  For other
+    headers, checks that the full pathname is used.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of the C++ header file.
+      lines: An array of strings, each representing a line of the file.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    cppvar = get_header_guard_cpp_variable(filename)
+
+    ifndef = None
+    ifndef_line_number = 0
+    define = None
+    for line_number, line in enumerate(lines):
+        line_split = line.split()
+        if len(line_split) >= 2:
+            # find the first occurrence of #ifndef and #define, save arg
+            if not ifndef and line_split[0] == '#ifndef':
+                # set ifndef to the header guard presented on the #ifndef line.
+                ifndef = line_split[1]
+                ifndef_line_number = line_number
+            if not define and line_split[0] == '#define':
+                define = line_split[1]
+            if define and ifndef:
+                break
+
+    if not ifndef or not define or ifndef != define:
+        error(0, 'build/header_guard', 5,
+              'No #ifndef header guard found, suggested CPP variable is: %s' %
+              cppvar)
+        return
+
+    # The guard should be File_h.
+    if ifndef != cppvar:
+        error(ifndef_line_number, 'build/header_guard', 5,
+              '#ifndef header guard has wrong style, please use: %s' % cppvar)
+
+
+def check_for_unicode_replacement_characters(lines, error):
+    """Logs an error for each line containing Unicode replacement characters.
+
+    These indicate that either the file contained invalid UTF-8 (likely)
+    or Unicode replacement characters (which it shouldn't).  Note that
+    it's possible for this to throw off line numbering if the invalid
+    UTF-8 occurred adjacent to a newline.
+
+    Args:
+      lines: An array of strings, each representing a line of the file.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    for line_number, line in enumerate(lines):
+        if u'\ufffd' in line:
+            error(line_number, 'readability/utf8', 5,
+                  'Line contains invalid UTF-8 (or Unicode replacement character).')
+
+
+def check_for_new_line_at_eof(lines, error):
+    """Logs an error if there is no newline char at the end of the file.
+
+    Args:
+      lines: An array of strings, each representing a line of the file.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    # The array lines() was created by adding two newlines to the
+    # original file (go figure), then splitting on \n.
+    # To verify that the file ends in \n, we just have to make sure the
+    # last-but-two element of lines() exists and is empty.
+    if len(lines) < 3 or lines[-2]:
+        error(len(lines) - 2, 'whitespace/ending_newline', 5,
+              'Could not find a newline character at the end of the file.')
+
+
+def check_for_multiline_comments_and_strings(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Logs an error if we see /* ... */ or "..." that extend past one line.
+
+    /* ... */ comments are legit inside macros, for one line.
+    Otherwise, we prefer // comments, so it's ok to warn about the
+    other.  Likewise, it's ok for strings to extend across multiple
+    lines, as long as a line continuation character (backslash)
+    terminates each line. Although not currently prohibited by the C++
+    style guide, it's ugly and unnecessary. We don't do well with either
+    in this lint program, so we warn about both.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+
+    # Remove all \\ (escaped backslashes) from the line. They are OK, and the
+    # second (escaped) slash may trigger later \" detection erroneously.
+    line = line.replace('\\\\', '')
+
+    if line.count('/*') > line.count('*/'):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/multiline_comment', 5,
+              'Complex multi-line /*...*/-style comment found. '
+              'Lint may give bogus warnings.  '
+              'Consider replacing these with //-style comments, '
+              'with #if 0...#endif, '
+              'or with more clearly structured multi-line comments.')
+
+    if (line.count('"') - line.count('\\"')) % 2:
+        error(line_number, 'readability/multiline_string', 5,
+              'Multi-line string ("...") found.  This lint script doesn\'t '
+              'do well with such strings, and may give bogus warnings.  They\'re '
+              'ugly and unnecessary, and you should use concatenation instead".')
+
+
+_THREADING_LIST = (
+    ('asctime(', 'asctime_r('),
+    ('ctime(', 'ctime_r('),
+    ('getgrgid(', 'getgrgid_r('),
+    ('getgrnam(', 'getgrnam_r('),
+    ('getlogin(', 'getlogin_r('),
+    ('getpwnam(', 'getpwnam_r('),
+    ('getpwuid(', 'getpwuid_r('),
+    ('gmtime(', 'gmtime_r('),
+    ('localtime(', 'localtime_r('),
+    ('rand(', 'rand_r('),
+    ('readdir(', 'readdir_r('),
+    ('strtok(', 'strtok_r('),
+    ('ttyname(', 'ttyname_r('),
+    )
+
+
+def check_posix_threading(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Checks for calls to thread-unsafe functions.
+
+    Much code has been originally written without consideration of
+    multi-threading. Also, engineers are relying on their old experience;
+    they have learned posix before threading extensions were added. These
+    tests guide the engineers to use thread-safe functions (when using
+    posix directly).
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+    for single_thread_function, multithread_safe_function in _THREADING_LIST:
+        index = line.find(single_thread_function)
+        # Comparisons made explicit for clarity -- pylint: disable-msg=C6403
+        if index >= 0 and (index == 0 or (not line[index - 1].isalnum()
+                                          and line[index - 1] not in ('_', '.', '>'))):
+            error(line_number, 'runtime/threadsafe_fn', 2,
+                  'Consider using ' + multithread_safe_function +
+                  '...) instead of ' + single_thread_function +
+                  '...) for improved thread safety.')
+
+
+# Matches invalid increment: *count++, which moves pointer instead of
+# incrementing a value.
+_RE_PATTERN_INVALID_INCREMENT = re.compile(
+    r'^\s*\*\w+(\+\+|--);')
+
+
+def check_invalid_increment(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Checks for invalid increment *count++.
+
+    For example following function:
+    void increment_counter(int* count) {
+        *count++;
+    }
+    is invalid, because it effectively does count++, moving pointer, and should
+    be replaced with ++*count, (*count)++ or *count += 1.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+    if _RE_PATTERN_INVALID_INCREMENT.match(line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/invalid_increment', 5,
+              'Changing pointer instead of value (or unused value of operator*).')
+
+
+class _ClassInfo(object):
+    """Stores information about a class."""
+
+    def __init__(self, name, line_number):
+        self.name = name
+        self.line_number = line_number
+        self.seen_open_brace = False
+        self.is_derived = False
+        self.virtual_method_line_number = None
+        self.has_virtual_destructor = False
+        self.brace_depth = 0
+
+
+class _ClassState(object):
+    """Holds the current state of the parse relating to class declarations.
+
+    It maintains a stack of _ClassInfos representing the parser's guess
+    as to the current nesting of class declarations. The innermost class
+    is at the top (back) of the stack. Typically, the stack will either
+    be empty or have exactly one entry.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.classinfo_stack = []
+
+    def check_finished(self, error):
+        """Checks that all classes have been completely parsed.
+
+        Call this when all lines in a file have been processed.
+        Args:
+          error: The function to call with any errors found.
+        """
+        if self.classinfo_stack:
+            # Note: This test can result in false positives if #ifdef constructs
+            # get in the way of brace matching. See the testBuildClass test in
+            # cpp_style_unittest.py for an example of this.
+            error(self.classinfo_stack[0].line_number, 'build/class', 5,
+                  'Failed to find complete declaration of class %s' %
+                  self.classinfo_stack[0].name)
+
+
+class _FileState(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._did_inside_namespace_indent_warning = False
+
+    def set_did_inside_namespace_indent_warning(self):
+        self._did_inside_namespace_indent_warning = True
+
+    def did_inside_namespace_indent_warning(self):
+        return self._did_inside_namespace_indent_warning
+
+def check_for_non_standard_constructs(clean_lines, line_number,
+                                      class_state, error):
+    """Logs an error if we see certain non-ANSI constructs ignored by gcc-2.
+
+    Complain about several constructs which gcc-2 accepts, but which are
+    not standard C++.  Warning about these in lint is one way to ease the
+    transition to new compilers.
+    - put storage class first (e.g. "static const" instead of "const static").
+    - "%lld" instead of %qd" in printf-type functions.
+    - "%1$d" is non-standard in printf-type functions.
+    - "\%" is an undefined character escape sequence.
+    - text after #endif is not allowed.
+    - invalid inner-style forward declaration.
+    - >? and <? operators, and their >?= and <?= cousins.
+    - classes with virtual methods need virtual destructors (compiler warning
+        available, but not turned on yet.)
+
+    Additionally, check for constructor/destructor style violations as it
+    is very convenient to do so while checking for gcc-2 compliance.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      class_state: A _ClassState instance which maintains information about
+                   the current stack of nested class declarations being parsed.
+      error: A callable to which errors are reported, which takes parameters:
+             line number, error level, and message
+    """
+
+    # Remove comments from the line, but leave in strings for now.
+    line = clean_lines.lines[line_number]
+
+    if search(r'printf\s*\(.*".*%[-+ ]?\d*q', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf_format', 3,
+              '%q in format strings is deprecated.  Use %ll instead.')
+
+    if search(r'printf\s*\(.*".*%\d+\$', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf_format', 2,
+              '%N$ formats are unconventional.  Try rewriting to avoid them.')
+
+    # Remove escaped backslashes before looking for undefined escapes.
+    line = line.replace('\\\\', '')
+
+    if search(r'("|\').*\\(%|\[|\(|{)', line):
+        error(line_number, 'build/printf_format', 3,
+              '%, [, (, and { are undefined character escapes.  Unescape them.')
+
+    # For the rest, work with both comments and strings removed.
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+
+    if search(r'\b(const|volatile|void|char|short|int|long'
+              r'|float|double|signed|unsigned'
+              r'|schar|u?int8|u?int16|u?int32|u?int64)'
+              r'\s+(auto|register|static|extern|typedef)\b',
+              line):
+        error(line_number, 'build/storage_class', 5,
+              'Storage class (static, extern, typedef, etc) should be first.')
+
+    if match(r'\s*#\s*endif\s*[^/\s]+', line):
+        error(line_number, 'build/endif_comment', 5,
+              'Uncommented text after #endif is non-standard.  Use a comment.')
+
+    if match(r'\s*class\s+(\w+\s*::\s*)+\w+\s*;', line):
+        error(line_number, 'build/forward_decl', 5,
+              'Inner-style forward declarations are invalid.  Remove this line.')
+
+    if search(r'(\w+|[+-]?\d+(\.\d*)?)\s*(<|>)\?=?\s*(\w+|[+-]?\d+)(\.\d*)?', line):
+        error(line_number, 'build/deprecated', 3,
+              '>? and <? (max and min) operators are non-standard and deprecated.')
+
+    # Track class entry and exit, and attempt to find cases within the
+    # class declaration that don't meet the C++ style
+    # guidelines. Tracking is very dependent on the code matching Google
+    # style guidelines, but it seems to perform well enough in testing
+    # to be a worthwhile addition to the checks.
+    classinfo_stack = class_state.classinfo_stack
+    # Look for a class declaration
+    class_decl_match = match(
+        r'\s*(template\s*<[\w\s<>,:]*>\s*)?(class|struct)\s+(\w+(::\w+)*)', line)
+    if class_decl_match:
+        classinfo_stack.append(_ClassInfo(class_decl_match.group(3), line_number))
+
+    # Everything else in this function uses the top of the stack if it's
+    # not empty.
+    if not classinfo_stack:
+        return
+
+    classinfo = classinfo_stack[-1]
+
+    # If the opening brace hasn't been seen look for it and also
+    # parent class declarations.
+    if not classinfo.seen_open_brace:
+        # If the line has a ';' in it, assume it's a forward declaration or
+        # a single-line class declaration, which we won't process.
+        if line.find(';') != -1:
+            classinfo_stack.pop()
+            return
+        classinfo.seen_open_brace = (line.find('{') != -1)
+        # Look for a bare ':'
+        if search('(^|[^:]):($|[^:])', line):
+            classinfo.is_derived = True
+        if not classinfo.seen_open_brace:
+            return  # Everything else in this function is for after open brace
+
+    # The class may have been declared with namespace or classname qualifiers.
+    # The constructor and destructor will not have those qualifiers.
+    base_classname = classinfo.name.split('::')[-1]
+
+    # Look for single-argument constructors that aren't marked explicit.
+    # Technically a valid construct, but against style.
+    args = match(r'(?<!explicit)\s+%s\s*\(([^,()]+)\)'
+                 % re.escape(base_classname),
+                 line)
+    if (args
+        and args.group(1) != 'void'
+        and not match(r'(const\s+)?%s\s*&' % re.escape(base_classname),
+                      args.group(1).strip())):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/explicit', 5,
+              'Single-argument constructors should be marked explicit.')
+
+    # Look for methods declared virtual.
+    if search(r'\bvirtual\b', line):
+        classinfo.virtual_method_line_number = line_number
+        # Only look for a destructor declaration on the same line. It would
+        # be extremely unlikely for the destructor declaration to occupy
+        # more than one line.
+        if search(r'~%s\s*\(' % base_classname, line):
+            classinfo.has_virtual_destructor = True
+
+    # Look for class end.
+    brace_depth = classinfo.brace_depth
+    brace_depth = brace_depth + line.count('{') - line.count('}')
+    if brace_depth <= 0:
+        classinfo = classinfo_stack.pop()
+        # Try to detect missing virtual destructor declarations.
+        # For now, only warn if a non-derived class with virtual methods lacks
+        # a virtual destructor. This is to make it less likely that people will
+        # declare derived virtual destructors without declaring the base
+        # destructor virtual.
+        if ((classinfo.virtual_method_line_number is not None)
+            and (not classinfo.has_virtual_destructor)
+            and (not classinfo.is_derived)):  # Only warn for base classes
+            error(classinfo.line_number, 'runtime/virtual', 4,
+                  'The class %s probably needs a virtual destructor due to '
+                  'having virtual method(s), one declared at line %d.'
+                  % (classinfo.name, classinfo.virtual_method_line_number))
+    else:
+        classinfo.brace_depth = brace_depth
+
+
+def check_spacing_for_function_call(line, line_number, error):
+    """Checks for the correctness of various spacing around function calls.
+
+    Args:
+      line: The text of the line to check.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    # Since function calls often occur inside if/for/foreach/while/switch
+    # expressions - which have their own, more liberal conventions - we
+    # first see if we should be looking inside such an expression for a
+    # function call, to which we can apply more strict standards.
+    function_call = line    # if there's no control flow construct, look at whole line
+    for pattern in (r'\bif\s*\((.*)\)\s*{',
+                    r'\bfor\s*\((.*)\)\s*{',
+                    r'\bforeach\s*\((.*)\)\s*{',
+                    r'\bwhile\s*\((.*)\)\s*[{;]',
+                    r'\bswitch\s*\((.*)\)\s*{'):
+        matched = search(pattern, line)
+        if matched:
+            function_call = matched.group(1)    # look inside the parens for function calls
+            break
+
+    # Except in if/for/foreach/while/switch, there should never be space
+    # immediately inside parens (eg "f( 3, 4 )").  We make an exception
+    # for nested parens ( (a+b) + c ).  Likewise, there should never be
+    # a space before a ( when it's a function argument.  I assume it's a
+    # function argument when the char before the whitespace is legal in
+    # a function name (alnum + _) and we're not starting a macro. Also ignore
+    # pointers and references to arrays and functions coz they're too tricky:
+    # we use a very simple way to recognize these:
+    # " (something)(maybe-something)" or
+    # " (something)(maybe-something," or
+    # " (something)[something]"
+    # Note that we assume the contents of [] to be short enough that
+    # they'll never need to wrap.
+    if (  # Ignore control structures.
+        not search(r'\b(if|for|foreach|while|switch|return|new|delete)\b', function_call)
+        # Ignore pointers/references to functions.
+        and not search(r' \([^)]+\)\([^)]*(\)|,$)', function_call)
+        # Ignore pointers/references to arrays.
+        and not search(r' \([^)]+\)\[[^\]]+\]', function_call)):
+        if search(r'\w\s*\([ \t](?!\s*\\$)', function_call):      # a ( used for a fn call
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 4,
+                  'Extra space after ( in function call')
+        elif search(r'\([ \t]+(?!(\s*\\)|\()', function_call):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 2,
+                  'Extra space after (')
+        if (search(r'\w\s+\(', function_call)
+            and not search(r'#\s*define|typedef', function_call)):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 4,
+                  'Extra space before ( in function call')
+        # If the ) is followed only by a newline or a { + newline, assume it's
+        # part of a control statement (if/while/etc), and don't complain
+        if search(r'[^)\s]\s+\)(?!\s*$|{\s*$)', function_call):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 2,
+                  'Extra space before )')
+
+
+def is_blank_line(line):
+    """Returns true if the given line is blank.
+
+    We consider a line to be blank if the line is empty or consists of
+    only white spaces.
+
+    Args:
+      line: A line of a string.
+
+    Returns:
+      True, if the given line is blank.
+    """
+    return not line or line.isspace()
+
+
+def check_for_function_lengths(clean_lines, line_number, function_state, error):
+    """Reports for long function bodies.
+
+    For an overview why this is done, see:
+    http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Write_Short_Functions
+
+    Uses a simplistic algorithm assuming other style guidelines
+    (especially spacing) are followed.
+    Only checks unindented functions, so class members are unchecked.
+    Trivial bodies are unchecked, so constructors with huge initializer lists
+    may be missed.
+    Blank/comment lines are not counted so as to avoid encouraging the removal
+    of vertical space and commments just to get through a lint check.
+    NOLINT *on the last line of a function* disables this check.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      function_state: Current function name and lines in body so far.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    lines = clean_lines.lines
+    line = lines[line_number]
+    raw = clean_lines.raw_lines
+    raw_line = raw[line_number]
+    joined_line = ''
+
+    starting_func = False
+    regexp = r'(\w(\w|::|\*|\&|\s)*)\('  # decls * & space::name( ...
+    match_result = match(regexp, line)
+    if match_result:
+        # If the name is all caps and underscores, figure it's a macro and
+        # ignore it, unless it's TEST or TEST_F.
+        function_name = match_result.group(1).split()[-1]
+        if function_name == 'TEST' or function_name == 'TEST_F' or (not match(r'[A-Z_]+$', function_name)):
+            starting_func = True
+
+    if starting_func:
+        body_found = False
+        for start_line_number in xrange(line_number, clean_lines.num_lines()):
+            start_line = lines[start_line_number]
+            joined_line += ' ' + start_line.lstrip()
+            if search(r'(;|})', start_line):  # Declarations and trivial functions
+                body_found = True
+                break                              # ... ignore
+            if search(r'{', start_line):
+                body_found = True
+                function = search(r'((\w|:)*)\(', line).group(1)
+                if match(r'TEST', function):    # Handle TEST... macros
+                    parameter_regexp = search(r'(\(.*\))', joined_line)
+                    if parameter_regexp:             # Ignore bad syntax
+                        function += parameter_regexp.group(1)
+                else:
+                    function += '()'
+                function_state.begin(function)
+                break
+        if not body_found:
+            # No body for the function (or evidence of a non-function) was found.
+            error(line_number, 'readability/fn_size', 5,
+                  'Lint failed to find start of function body.')
+    elif match(r'^\}\s*$', line):  # function end
+        if not search(r'\bNOLINT\b', raw_line):
+            function_state.check(error, line_number)
+        function_state.end()
+    elif not match(r'^\s*$', line):
+        function_state.count()  # Count non-blank/non-comment lines.
+
+
+def check_spacing(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Checks for the correctness of various spacing issues in the code.
+
+    Things we check for: spaces around operators, spaces after
+    if/for/while/switch, no spaces around parens in function calls, two
+    spaces between code and comment, don't start a block with a blank
+    line, don't end a function with a blank line, don't have too many
+    blank lines in a row.
+
+    Args:
+      file_extension: The current file extension, without the leading dot.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    raw = clean_lines.raw_lines
+    line = raw[line_number]
+
+    # Before nixing comments, check if the line is blank for no good
+    # reason.  This includes the first line after a block is opened, and
+    # blank lines at the end of a function (ie, right before a line like '}').
+    if is_blank_line(line):
+        elided = clean_lines.elided
+        previous_line = elided[line_number - 1]
+        previous_brace = previous_line.rfind('{')
+        # FIXME: Don't complain if line before blank line, and line after,
+        #        both start with alnums and are indented the same amount.
+        #        This ignores whitespace at the start of a namespace block
+        #        because those are not usually indented.
+        if (previous_brace != -1 and previous_line[previous_brace:].find('}') == -1
+            and previous_line[:previous_brace].find('namespace') == -1):
+            # OK, we have a blank line at the start of a code block.  Before we
+            # complain, we check if it is an exception to the rule: The previous
+            # non-empty line has the parameters of a function header that are indented
+            # 4 spaces (because they did not fit in a 80 column line when placed on
+            # the same line as the function name).  We also check for the case where
+            # the previous line is indented 6 spaces, which may happen when the
+            # initializers of a constructor do not fit into a 80 column line.
+            exception = False
+            if match(r' {6}\w', previous_line):  # Initializer list?
+                # We are looking for the opening column of initializer list, which
+                # should be indented 4 spaces to cause 6 space indentation afterwards.
+                search_position = line_number - 2
+                while (search_position >= 0
+                       and match(r' {6}\w', elided[search_position])):
+                    search_position -= 1
+                exception = (search_position >= 0
+                             and elided[search_position][:5] == '    :')
+            else:
+                # Search for the function arguments or an initializer list.  We use a
+                # simple heuristic here: If the line is indented 4 spaces; and we have a
+                # closing paren, without the opening paren, followed by an opening brace
+                # or colon (for initializer lists) we assume that it is the last line of
+                # a function header.  If we have a colon indented 4 spaces, it is an
+                # initializer list.
+                exception = (match(r' {4}\w[^\(]*\)\s*(const\s*)?(\{\s*$|:)',
+                                   previous_line)
+                             or match(r' {4}:', previous_line))
+
+            if not exception:
+                error(line_number, 'whitespace/blank_line', 2,
+                      'Blank line at the start of a code block.  Is this needed?')
+        # This doesn't ignore whitespace at the end of a namespace block
+        # because that is too hard without pairing open/close braces;
+        # however, a special exception is made for namespace closing
+        # brackets which have a comment containing "namespace".
+        #
+        # Also, ignore blank lines at the end of a block in a long if-else
+        # chain, like this:
+        #   if (condition1) {
+        #     // Something followed by a blank line
+        #
+        #   } else if (condition2) {
+        #     // Something else
+        #   }
+        if line_number + 1 < clean_lines.num_lines():
+            next_line = raw[line_number + 1]
+            if (next_line
+                and match(r'\s*}', next_line)
+                and next_line.find('namespace') == -1
+                and next_line.find('} else ') == -1):
+                error(line_number, 'whitespace/blank_line', 3,
+                      'Blank line at the end of a code block.  Is this needed?')
+
+    # Next, we complain if there's a comment too near the text
+    comment_position = line.find('//')
+    if comment_position != -1:
+        # Check if the // may be in quotes.  If so, ignore it
+        # Comparisons made explicit for clarity -- pylint: disable-msg=C6403
+        if (line.count('"', 0, comment_position) - line.count('\\"', 0, comment_position)) % 2 == 0:   # not in quotes
+            # Allow one space before end of line comment.
+            if (not match(r'^\s*$', line[:comment_position])
+                and (comment_position >= 1
+                and ((line[comment_position - 1] not in string.whitespace)
+                     or (comment_position >= 2
+                         and line[comment_position - 2] in string.whitespace)))):
+                error(line_number, 'whitespace/comments', 5,
+                      'One space before end of line comments')
+            # There should always be a space between the // and the comment
+            commentend = comment_position + 2
+            if commentend < len(line) and not line[commentend] == ' ':
+                # but some lines are exceptions -- e.g. if they're big
+                # comment delimiters like:
+                # //----------------------------------------------------------
+                # or they begin with multiple slashes followed by a space:
+                # //////// Header comment
+                matched = (search(r'[=/-]{4,}\s*$', line[commentend:])
+                           or search(r'^/+ ', line[commentend:]))
+                if not matched:
+                    error(line_number, 'whitespace/comments', 4,
+                          'Should have a space between // and comment')
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]  # get rid of comments and strings
+
+    # Don't try to do spacing checks for operator methods
+    line = sub(r'operator(==|!=|<|<<|<=|>=|>>|>)\(', 'operator\(', line)
+    # Don't try to do spacing checks for #include or #import statements at
+    # minimum because it messes up checks for spacing around /
+    if match(r'\s*#\s*(?:include|import)', line):
+        return
+    if search(r'[\w.]=[\w.]', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/operators', 4,
+              'Missing spaces around =')
+
+    # FIXME: It's not ok to have spaces around binary operators like .
+
+    # You should always have whitespace around binary operators.
+    # Alas, we can't test < or > because they're legitimately used sans spaces
+    # (a->b, vector<int> a).  The only time we can tell is a < with no >, and
+    # only if it's not template params list spilling into the next line.
+    matched = search(r'[^<>=!\s](==|!=|\+=|-=|\*=|/=|/|\|=|&=|<<=|>>=|<=|>=|\|\||\||&&|>>|<<)[^<>=!\s]', line)
+    if not matched:
+        # Note that while it seems that the '<[^<]*' term in the following
+        # regexp could be simplified to '<.*', which would indeed match
+        # the same class of strings, the [^<] means that searching for the
+        # regexp takes linear rather than quadratic time.
+        if not search(r'<[^<]*,\s*$', line):  # template params spill
+            matched = search(r'[^<>=!\s](<)[^<>=!\s]([^>]|->)*$', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/operators', 3,
+              'Missing spaces around %s' % matched.group(1))
+
+    # There shouldn't be space around unary operators
+    matched = search(r'(!\s|~\s|[\s]--[\s;]|[\s]\+\+[\s;])', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/operators', 4,
+              'Extra space for operator %s' % matched.group(1))
+
+    # A pet peeve of mine: no spaces after an if, while, switch, or for
+    matched = search(r' (if\(|for\(|foreach\(|while\(|switch\()', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 5,
+              'Missing space before ( in %s' % matched.group(1))
+
+    # For if/for/foreach/while/switch, the left and right parens should be
+    # consistent about how many spaces are inside the parens, and
+    # there should either be zero or one spaces inside the parens.
+    # We don't want: "if ( foo)" or "if ( foo   )".
+    # Exception: "for ( ; foo; bar)" and "for (foo; bar; )" are allowed.
+    matched = search(r'\b(?P<statement>if|for|foreach|while|switch)\s*\((?P<remainder>.*)$', line)
+    if matched:
+        statement = matched.group('statement')
+        condition, rest = up_to_unmatched_closing_paren(matched.group('remainder'))
+        if condition is not None:
+            condition_match = search(r'(?P<leading>[ ]*)(?P<separator>.).*[^ ]+(?P<trailing>[ ]*)', condition)
+            if condition_match:
+                n_leading = len(condition_match.group('leading'))
+                n_trailing = len(condition_match.group('trailing'))
+                if n_leading != 0:
+                    for_exception = statement == 'for' and condition.startswith(' ;')
+                    if not for_exception:
+                        error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 5,
+                              'Extra space after ( in %s' % statement)
+                if n_trailing != 0:
+                    for_exception = statement == 'for' and condition.endswith('; ')
+                    if not for_exception:
+                        error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 5,
+                              'Extra space before ) in %s' % statement)
+
+            # Do not check for more than one command in macros
+            in_macro = match(r'\s*#define', line)
+            if not in_macro and not match(r'((\s*{\s*}?)|(\s*;?))\s*\\?$', rest):
+                error(line_number, 'whitespace/parens', 4,
+                      'More than one command on the same line in %s' % statement)
+
+    # You should always have a space after a comma (either as fn arg or operator)
+    if search(r',[^\s]', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/comma', 3,
+              'Missing space after ,')
+
+    matched = search(r'^\s*(?P<token1>[a-zA-Z0-9_\*&]+)\s\s+(?P<token2>[a-zA-Z0-9_\*&]+)', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/declaration', 3,
+              'Extra space between %s and %s' % (matched.group('token1'), matched.group('token2')))
+
+    if file_extension == 'cpp':
+        # C++ should have the & or * beside the type not the variable name.
+        matched = match(r'\s*\w+(?<!\breturn|\bdelete)\s+(?P<pointer_operator>\*|\&)\w+', line)
+        if matched:
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/declaration', 3,
+                  'Declaration has space between type name and %s in %s' % (matched.group('pointer_operator'), matched.group(0).strip()))
+
+    elif file_extension == 'c':
+        # C Pointer declaration should have the * beside the variable not the type name.
+        matched = search(r'^\s*\w+\*\s+\w+', line)
+        if matched:
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/declaration', 3,
+                  'Declaration has space between * and variable name in %s' % matched.group(0).strip())
+
+    # Next we will look for issues with function calls.
+    check_spacing_for_function_call(line, line_number, error)
+
+    # Except after an opening paren, you should have spaces before your braces.
+    # And since you should never have braces at the beginning of a line, this is
+    # an easy test.
+    if search(r'[^ ({]{', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 5,
+              'Missing space before {')
+
+    # Make sure '} else {' has spaces.
+    if search(r'}else', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 5,
+              'Missing space before else')
+
+    # You shouldn't have spaces before your brackets, except maybe after
+    # 'delete []' or 'new char * []'.
+    if search(r'\w\s+\[', line) and not search(r'delete\s+\[', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 5,
+              'Extra space before [')
+
+    # You shouldn't have a space before a semicolon at the end of the line.
+    # There's a special case for "for" since the style guide allows space before
+    # the semicolon there.
+    if search(r':\s*;\s*$', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/semicolon', 5,
+              'Semicolon defining empty statement. Use { } instead.')
+    elif search(r'^\s*;\s*$', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/semicolon', 5,
+              'Line contains only semicolon. If this should be an empty statement, '
+              'use { } instead.')
+    elif (search(r'\s+;\s*$', line) and not search(r'\bfor\b', line)):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/semicolon', 5,
+              'Extra space before last semicolon. If this should be an empty '
+              'statement, use { } instead.')
+    elif (search(r'\b(for|while)\s*\(.*\)\s*;\s*$', line)
+          and line.count('(') == line.count(')')
+          # Allow do {} while();
+          and not search(r'}\s*while', line)):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/semicolon', 5,
+              'Semicolon defining empty statement for this loop. Use { } instead.')
+
+
+def get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, line_number):
+    """Return the most recent non-blank line and its line number.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file contents.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+
+    Returns:
+      A tuple with two elements.  The first element is the contents of the last
+      non-blank line before the current line, or the empty string if this is the
+      first non-blank line.  The second is the line number of that line, or -1
+      if this is the first non-blank line.
+    """
+
+    previous_line_number = line_number - 1
+    while previous_line_number >= 0:
+        previous_line = clean_lines.elided[previous_line_number]
+        if not is_blank_line(previous_line):     # if not a blank line...
+            return (previous_line, previous_line_number)
+        previous_line_number -= 1
+    return ('', -1)
+
+
+def check_namespace_indentation(clean_lines, line_number, file_extension, file_state, error):
+    """Looks for indentation errors inside of namespaces.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      file_extension: The extension (dot not included) of the file.
+      file_state: A _FileState instance which maintains information about
+                  the state of things in the file.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    namespace_match = match(r'(?P<namespace_indentation>\s*)namespace\s+\S+\s*{\s*$', line)
+    if not namespace_match:
+        return
+
+    current_indentation_level = len(namespace_match.group('namespace_indentation'))
+    if current_indentation_level > 0:
+        # Don't warn about an indented namespace if we already warned about indented code.
+        if not file_state.did_inside_namespace_indent_warning():
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/indent', 4,
+                  'namespace should never be indented.')
+        return
+    looking_for_semicolon = False;
+    line_offset = 0
+    in_preprocessor_directive = False;
+    for current_line in clean_lines.elided[line_number + 1:]:
+        line_offset += 1
+        if not current_line.strip():
+            continue
+        if not current_indentation_level:
+            if not (in_preprocessor_directive or looking_for_semicolon):
+                if not match(r'\S', current_line) and not file_state.did_inside_namespace_indent_warning():
+                    file_state.set_did_inside_namespace_indent_warning()
+                    error(line_number + line_offset, 'whitespace/indent', 4,
+                          'Code inside a namespace should not be indented.')
+            if in_preprocessor_directive or (current_line.strip()[0] == '#'): # This takes care of preprocessor directive syntax.
+                in_preprocessor_directive = current_line[-1] == '\\'
+            else:
+                looking_for_semicolon = ((current_line.find(';') == -1) and (current_line.strip()[-1] != '}')) or (current_line[-1] == '\\')
+        else:
+            looking_for_semicolon = False; # If we have a brace we may not need a semicolon.
+        current_indentation_level += current_line.count('{') - current_line.count('}')
+        if current_indentation_level < 0:
+            break;
+
+def check_using_std(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Looks for 'using std::foo;' statements which should be replaced with 'using namespace std;'.
+
+    Args:
+      file_extension: The extension of the current file, without the leading dot.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    # This check doesn't apply to C or Objective-C implementation files.
+    if is_c_or_objective_c(file_extension):
+        return
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    using_std_match = match(r'\s*using\s+std::(?P<method_name>\S+)\s*;\s*$', line)
+    if not using_std_match:
+        return
+
+    method_name = using_std_match.group('method_name')
+    error(line_number, 'build/using_std', 4,
+          "Use 'using namespace std;' instead of 'using std::%s;'." % method_name)
+
+
+def check_max_min_macros(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Looks use of MAX() and MIN() macros that should be replaced with std::max() and std::min().
+
+    Args:
+      file_extension: The extension of the current file, without the leading dot.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    # This check doesn't apply to C or Objective-C implementation files.
+    if is_c_or_objective_c(file_extension):
+        return
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    max_min_macros_search = search(r'\b(?P<max_min_macro>(MAX|MIN))\s*\(', line)
+    if not max_min_macros_search:
+        return
+
+    max_min_macro = max_min_macros_search.group('max_min_macro')
+    max_min_macro_lower = max_min_macro.lower()
+    error(line_number, 'runtime/max_min_macros', 4,
+          'Use std::%s() or std::%s<type>() instead of the %s() macro.'
+          % (max_min_macro_lower, max_min_macro_lower, max_min_macro))
+
+
+def check_switch_indentation(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Looks for indentation errors inside of switch statements.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    switch_match = match(r'(?P<switch_indentation>\s*)switch\s*\(.+\)\s*{\s*$', line)
+    if not switch_match:
+        return
+
+    switch_indentation = switch_match.group('switch_indentation')
+    inner_indentation = switch_indentation + ' ' * 4
+    line_offset = 0
+    encountered_nested_switch = False
+
+    for current_line in clean_lines.elided[line_number + 1:]:
+        line_offset += 1
+
+        # Skip not only empty lines but also those with preprocessor directives.
+        if current_line.strip() == '' or current_line.startswith('#'):
+            continue
+
+        if match(r'\s*switch\s*\(.+\)\s*{\s*$', current_line):
+            # Complexity alarm - another switch statement nested inside the one
+            # that we're currently testing. We'll need to track the extent of
+            # that inner switch if the upcoming label tests are still supposed
+            # to work correctly. Let's not do that; instead, we'll finish
+            # checking this line, and then leave it like that. Assuming the
+            # indentation is done consistently (even if incorrectly), this will
+            # still catch all indentation issues in practice.
+            encountered_nested_switch = True
+
+        current_indentation_match = match(r'(?P<indentation>\s*)(?P<remaining_line>.*)$', current_line);
+        current_indentation = current_indentation_match.group('indentation')
+        remaining_line = current_indentation_match.group('remaining_line')
+
+        # End the check at the end of the switch statement.
+        if remaining_line.startswith('}') and current_indentation == switch_indentation:
+            break
+        # Case and default branches should not be indented. The regexp also
+        # catches single-line cases like "default: break;" but does not trigger
+        # on stuff like "Document::Foo();".
+        elif match(r'(default|case\s+.*)\s*:([^:].*)?$', remaining_line):
+            if current_indentation != switch_indentation:
+                error(line_number + line_offset, 'whitespace/indent', 4,
+                      'A case label should not be indented, but line up with its switch statement.')
+                # Don't throw an error for multiple badly indented labels,
+                # one should be enough to figure out the problem.
+                break
+        # We ignore goto labels at the very beginning of a line.
+        elif match(r'\w+\s*:\s*$', remaining_line):
+            continue
+        # It's not a goto label, so check if it's indented at least as far as
+        # the switch statement plus one more level of indentation.
+        elif not current_indentation.startswith(inner_indentation):
+            error(line_number + line_offset, 'whitespace/indent', 4,
+                  'Non-label code inside switch statements should be indented.')
+            # Don't throw an error for multiple badly indented statements,
+            # one should be enough to figure out the problem.
+            break
+
+        if encountered_nested_switch:
+            break
+
+
+def check_braces(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Looks for misplaced braces (e.g. at the end of line).
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    if match(r'\s*{\s*$', line):
+        # We allow an open brace to start a line in the case where someone
+        # is using braces for function definition or in a block to
+        # explicitly create a new scope, which is commonly used to control
+        # the lifetime of stack-allocated variables.  We don't detect this
+        # perfectly: we just don't complain if the last non-whitespace
+        # character on the previous non-blank line is ';', ':', '{', '}',
+        # ')', or ') const' and doesn't begin with 'if|for|while|switch|else'.
+        # We also allow '#' for #endif and '=' for array initialization.
+        previous_line = get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, line_number)[0]
+        if ((not search(r'[;:}{)=]\s*$|\)\s*const\s*$', previous_line)
+             or search(r'\b(if|for|foreach|while|switch|else)\b', previous_line))
+            and previous_line.find('#') < 0):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 4,
+                  'This { should be at the end of the previous line')
+    elif (search(r'\)\s*(const\s*)?{\s*$', line)
+          and line.count('(') == line.count(')')
+          and not search(r'\b(if|for|foreach|while|switch)\b', line)
+          and not match(r'\s+[A-Z_][A-Z_0-9]+\b', line)):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 4,
+              'Place brace on its own line for function definitions.')
+
+    if (match(r'\s*}\s*(else\s*({\s*)?)?$', line) and line_number > 1):
+        # We check if a closed brace has started a line to see if a
+        # one line control statement was previous.
+        previous_line = clean_lines.elided[line_number - 2]
+        if (previous_line.find('{') > 0 and previous_line.find('}') < 0
+            and search(r'\b(if|for|foreach|while|else)\b', previous_line)):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/braces', 4,
+                  'One line control clauses should not use braces.')
+
+    # An else clause should be on the same line as the preceding closing brace.
+    if match(r'\s*else\s*', line):
+        previous_line = get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, line_number)[0]
+        if match(r'\s*}\s*$', previous_line):
+            error(line_number, 'whitespace/newline', 4,
+                  'An else should appear on the same line as the preceding }')
+
+    # Likewise, an else should never have the else clause on the same line
+    if search(r'\belse [^\s{]', line) and not search(r'\belse if\b', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/newline', 4,
+              'Else clause should never be on same line as else (use 2 lines)')
+
+    # In the same way, a do/while should never be on one line
+    if match(r'\s*do [^\s{]', line):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/newline', 4,
+              'do/while clauses should not be on a single line')
+
+    # Braces shouldn't be followed by a ; unless they're defining a struct
+    # or initializing an array.
+    # We can't tell in general, but we can for some common cases.
+    previous_line_number = line_number
+    while True:
+        (previous_line, previous_line_number) = get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, previous_line_number)
+        if match(r'\s+{.*}\s*;', line) and not previous_line.count(';'):
+            line = previous_line + line
+        else:
+            break
+    if (search(r'{.*}\s*;', line)
+        and line.count('{') == line.count('}')
+        and not search(r'struct|class|enum|\s*=\s*{', line)):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/braces', 4,
+              "You don't need a ; after a }")
+
+
+def check_exit_statement_simplifications(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Looks for else or else-if statements that should be written as an
+    if statement when the prior if concludes with a return, break, continue or
+    goto statement.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number] # Get rid of comments and strings.
+
+    else_match = match(r'(?P<else_indentation>\s*)(\}\s*)?else(\s+if\s*\(|(?P<else>\s*(\{\s*)?\Z))', line)
+    if not else_match:
+        return
+
+    else_indentation = else_match.group('else_indentation')
+    inner_indentation = else_indentation + ' ' * 4
+
+    previous_lines = clean_lines.elided[:line_number]
+    previous_lines.reverse()
+    line_offset = 0
+    encountered_exit_statement = False
+
+    for current_line in previous_lines:
+        line_offset -= 1
+
+        # Skip not only empty lines but also those with preprocessor directives
+        # and goto labels.
+        if current_line.strip() == '' or current_line.startswith('#') or match(r'\w+\s*:\s*$', current_line):
+            continue
+
+        # Skip lines with closing braces on the original indentation level.
+        # Even though the styleguide says they should be on the same line as
+        # the "else if" statement, we also want to check for instances where
+        # the current code does not comply with the coding style. Thus, ignore
+        # these lines and proceed to the line before that.
+        if current_line == else_indentation + '}':
+            continue
+
+        current_indentation_match = match(r'(?P<indentation>\s*)(?P<remaining_line>.*)$', current_line);
+        current_indentation = current_indentation_match.group('indentation')
+        remaining_line = current_indentation_match.group('remaining_line')
+
+        # As we're going up the lines, the first real statement to encounter
+        # has to be an exit statement (return, break, continue or goto) -
+        # otherwise, this check doesn't apply.
+        if not encountered_exit_statement:
+            # We only want to find exit statements if they are on exactly
+            # the same level of indentation as expected from the code inside
+            # the block. If the indentation doesn't strictly match then we
+            # might have a nested if or something, which must be ignored.
+            if current_indentation != inner_indentation:
+                break
+            if match(r'(return(\W+.*)|(break|continue)\s*;|goto\s*\w+;)$', remaining_line):
+                encountered_exit_statement = True
+                continue
+            break
+
+        # When code execution reaches this point, we've found an exit statement
+        # as last statement of the previous block. Now we only need to make
+        # sure that the block belongs to an "if", then we can throw an error.
+
+        # Skip lines with opening braces on the original indentation level,
+        # similar to the closing braces check above. ("if (condition)\n{")
+        if current_line == else_indentation + '{':
+            continue
+
+        # Skip everything that's further indented than our "else" or "else if".
+        if current_indentation.startswith(else_indentation) and current_indentation != else_indentation:
+            continue
+
+        # So we've got a line with same (or less) indentation. Is it an "if"?
+        # If yes: throw an error. If no: don't throw an error.
+        # Whatever the outcome, this is the end of our loop.
+        if match(r'if\s*\(', remaining_line):
+            if else_match.start('else') != -1:
+                error(line_number + line_offset, 'readability/control_flow', 4,
+                      'An else statement can be removed when the prior "if" '
+                      'concludes with a return, break, continue or goto statement.')
+            else:
+                error(line_number + line_offset, 'readability/control_flow', 4,
+                      'An else if statement should be written as an if statement '
+                      'when the prior "if" concludes with a return, break, '
+                      'continue or goto statement.')
+        break
+
+
+def replaceable_check(operator, macro, line):
+    """Determine whether a basic CHECK can be replaced with a more specific one.
+
+    For example suggest using CHECK_EQ instead of CHECK(a == b) and
+    similarly for CHECK_GE, CHECK_GT, CHECK_LE, CHECK_LT, CHECK_NE.
+
+    Args:
+      operator: The C++ operator used in the CHECK.
+      macro: The CHECK or EXPECT macro being called.
+      line: The current source line.
+
+    Returns:
+      True if the CHECK can be replaced with a more specific one.
+    """
+
+    # This matches decimal and hex integers, strings, and chars (in that order).
+    match_constant = r'([-+]?(\d+|0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+)[lLuU]{0,3}|".*"|\'.*\')'
+
+    # Expression to match two sides of the operator with something that
+    # looks like a literal, since CHECK(x == iterator) won't compile.
+    # This means we can't catch all the cases where a more specific
+    # CHECK is possible, but it's less annoying than dealing with
+    # extraneous warnings.
+    match_this = (r'\s*' + macro + r'\((\s*' +
+                  match_constant + r'\s*' + operator + r'[^<>].*|'
+                  r'.*[^<>]' + operator + r'\s*' + match_constant +
+                  r'\s*\))')
+
+    # Don't complain about CHECK(x == NULL) or similar because
+    # CHECK_EQ(x, NULL) won't compile (requires a cast).
+    # Also, don't complain about more complex boolean expressions
+    # involving && or || such as CHECK(a == b || c == d).
+    return match(match_this, line) and not search(r'NULL|&&|\|\|', line)
+
+
+def check_check(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    """Checks the use of CHECK and EXPECT macros.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    # Decide the set of replacement macros that should be suggested
+    raw_lines = clean_lines.raw_lines
+    current_macro = ''
+    for macro in _CHECK_MACROS:
+        if raw_lines[line_number].find(macro) >= 0:
+            current_macro = macro
+            break
+    if not current_macro:
+        # Don't waste time here if line doesn't contain 'CHECK' or 'EXPECT'
+        return
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]        # get rid of comments and strings
+
+    # Encourage replacing plain CHECKs with CHECK_EQ/CHECK_NE/etc.
+    for operator in ['==', '!=', '>=', '>', '<=', '<']:
+        if replaceable_check(operator, current_macro, line):
+            error(line_number, 'readability/check', 2,
+                  'Consider using %s instead of %s(a %s b)' % (
+                      _CHECK_REPLACEMENT[current_macro][operator],
+                      current_macro, operator))
+            break
+
+
+def check_for_comparisons_to_zero(clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    # Get the line without comments and strings.
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+
+    # Include NULL here so that users don't have to convert NULL to 0 first and then get this error.
+    if search(r'[=!]=\s*(NULL|0|true|false)\W', line) or search(r'\W(NULL|0|true|false)\s*[=!]=', line):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/comparison_to_zero', 5,
+              'Tests for true/false, null/non-null, and zero/non-zero should all be done without equality comparisons.')
+
+
+def check_for_null(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error):
+    # This check doesn't apply to C or Objective-C implementation files.
+    if is_c_or_objective_c(file_extension):
+        return
+
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+
+    # Don't warn about NULL usage in g_*(). See Bug 32858 and 39372.
+    if search(r'\bg(_[a-z]+)+\b', line):
+        return
+
+    # Don't warn about NULL usage in gst_*_many(). See Bug 39740
+    if search(r'\bgst_\w+_many\b', line):
+        return
+
+    # Don't warn about NULL usage in g_str{join,concat}(). See Bug 34834
+    if search(r'\bg_str(join|concat)\b', line):
+        return
+
+    if search(r'\bNULL\b', line):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/null', 5, 'Use 0 instead of NULL.')
+        return
+
+    line = clean_lines.raw_lines[line_number]
+    # See if NULL occurs in any comments in the line. If the search for NULL using the raw line
+    # matches, then do the check with strings collapsed to avoid giving errors for
+    # NULLs occurring in strings.
+    if search(r'\bNULL\b', line) and search(r'\bNULL\b', CleansedLines.collapse_strings(line)):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/null', 4, 'Use 0 instead of NULL.')
+
+def get_line_width(line):
+    """Determines the width of the line in column positions.
+
+    Args:
+      line: A string, which may be a Unicode string.
+
+    Returns:
+      The width of the line in column positions, accounting for Unicode
+      combining characters and wide characters.
+    """
+    if isinstance(line, unicode):
+        width = 0
+        for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFC', line):
+            if unicodedata.east_asian_width(c) in ('W', 'F'):
+                width += 2
+            elif not unicodedata.combining(c):
+                width += 1
+        return width
+    return len(line)
+
+
+def check_style(clean_lines, line_number, file_extension, file_state, error):
+    """Checks rules from the 'C++ style rules' section of cppguide.html.
+
+    Most of these rules are hard to test (naming, comment style), but we
+    do what we can.  In particular we check for 4-space indents, line lengths,
+    tab usage, spaces inside code, etc.
+
+    Args:
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      file_extension: The extension (without the dot) of the filename.
+      file_state: A _FileState instance which maintains information about
+                  the state of things in the file.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+
+    raw_lines = clean_lines.raw_lines
+    line = raw_lines[line_number]
+
+    if line.find('\t') != -1:
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/tab', 1,
+              'Tab found; better to use spaces')
+
+    # One or three blank spaces at the beginning of the line is weird; it's
+    # hard to reconcile that with 4-space indents.
+    # NOTE: here are the conditions rob pike used for his tests.  Mine aren't
+    # as sophisticated, but it may be worth becoming so:  RLENGTH==initial_spaces
+    # if(RLENGTH > 20) complain = 0;
+    # if(match($0, " +(error|private|public|protected):")) complain = 0;
+    # if(match(prev, "&& *$")) complain = 0;
+    # if(match(prev, "\\|\\| *$")) complain = 0;
+    # if(match(prev, "[\",=><] *$")) complain = 0;
+    # if(match($0, " <<")) complain = 0;
+    # if(match(prev, " +for \\(")) complain = 0;
+    # if(prevodd && match(prevprev, " +for \\(")) complain = 0;
+    initial_spaces = 0
+    cleansed_line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+    while initial_spaces < len(line) and line[initial_spaces] == ' ':
+        initial_spaces += 1
+    if line and line[-1].isspace():
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/end_of_line', 4,
+              'Line ends in whitespace.  Consider deleting these extra spaces.')
+    # There are certain situations we allow one space, notably for labels
+    elif ((initial_spaces >= 1 and initial_spaces <= 3)
+          and not match(r'\s*\w+\s*:\s*$', cleansed_line)):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/indent', 3,
+              'Weird number of spaces at line-start.  '
+              'Are you using a 4-space indent?')
+    # Labels should always be indented at least one space.
+    elif not initial_spaces and line[:2] != '//':
+        label_match = match(r'(?P<label>[^:]+):\s*$', line)
+
+        if label_match:
+            label = label_match.group('label')
+            # Only throw errors for stuff that is definitely not a goto label,
+            # because goto labels can in fact occur at the start of the line.
+            if label in ['public', 'private', 'protected'] or label.find(' ') != -1:
+                error(line_number, 'whitespace/labels', 4,
+                      'Labels should always be indented at least one space.  '
+                      'If this is a member-initializer list in a constructor, '
+                      'the colon should be on the line after the definition header.')
+
+    if (cleansed_line.count(';') > 1
+        # for loops are allowed two ;'s (and may run over two lines).
+        and cleansed_line.find('for') == -1
+        and (get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, line_number)[0].find('for') == -1
+             or get_previous_non_blank_line(clean_lines, line_number)[0].find(';') != -1)
+        # It's ok to have many commands in a switch case that fits in 1 line
+        and not ((cleansed_line.find('case ') != -1
+                  or cleansed_line.find('default:') != -1)
+                 and cleansed_line.find('break;') != -1)
+        and not cleansed_line.startswith('#define ')):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/newline', 4,
+              'More than one command on the same line')
+
+    if cleansed_line.strip().endswith('||') or cleansed_line.strip().endswith('&&'):
+        error(line_number, 'whitespace/operators', 4,
+              'Boolean expressions that span multiple lines should have their '
+              'operators on the left side of the line instead of the right side.')
+
+    # Some more style checks
+    check_namespace_indentation(clean_lines, line_number, file_extension, file_state, error)
+    check_using_std(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_max_min_macros(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_switch_indentation(clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_braces(clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_exit_statement_simplifications(clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_spacing(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_check(clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_for_comparisons_to_zero(clean_lines, line_number, error)
+    check_for_null(file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, error)
+
+
+_RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE_NEW_STYLE = re.compile(r'#include +"[^/]+\.h"')
+_RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE = re.compile(r'^\s*#\s*include\s*([<"])([^>"]*)[>"].*$')
+# Matches the first component of a filename delimited by -s and _s. That is:
+#  _RE_FIRST_COMPONENT.match('foo').group(0) == 'foo'
+#  _RE_FIRST_COMPONENT.match('foo.cpp').group(0) == 'foo'
+#  _RE_FIRST_COMPONENT.match('foo-bar_baz.cpp').group(0) == 'foo'
+#  _RE_FIRST_COMPONENT.match('foo_bar-baz.cpp').group(0) == 'foo'
+_RE_FIRST_COMPONENT = re.compile(r'^[^-_.]+')
+
+
+def _drop_common_suffixes(filename):
+    """Drops common suffixes like _test.cpp or -inl.h from filename.
+
+    For example:
+      >>> _drop_common_suffixes('foo/foo-inl.h')
+      'foo/foo'
+      >>> _drop_common_suffixes('foo/bar/foo.cpp')
+      'foo/bar/foo'
+      >>> _drop_common_suffixes('foo/foo_internal.h')
+      'foo/foo'
+      >>> _drop_common_suffixes('foo/foo_unusualinternal.h')
+      'foo/foo_unusualinternal'
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The input filename.
+
+    Returns:
+      The filename with the common suffix removed.
+    """
+    for suffix in ('test.cpp', 'regtest.cpp', 'unittest.cpp',
+                   'inl.h', 'impl.h', 'internal.h'):
+        if (filename.endswith(suffix) and len(filename) > len(suffix)
+            and filename[-len(suffix) - 1] in ('-', '_')):
+            return filename[:-len(suffix) - 1]
+    return os.path.splitext(filename)[0]
+
+
+def _classify_include(filename, include, is_system, include_state):
+    """Figures out what kind of header 'include' is.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The current file cpp_style is running over.
+      include: The path to a #included file.
+      is_system: True if the #include used <> rather than "".
+      include_state: An _IncludeState instance in which the headers are inserted.
+
+    Returns:
+      One of the _XXX_HEADER constants.
+
+    For example:
+      >>> _classify_include('foo.cpp', 'config.h', False)
+      _CONFIG_HEADER
+      >>> _classify_include('foo.cpp', 'foo.h', False)
+      _PRIMARY_HEADER
+      >>> _classify_include('foo.cpp', 'bar.h', False)
+      _OTHER_HEADER
+    """
+
+    # If it is a system header we know it is classified as _OTHER_HEADER.
+    if is_system:
+        return _OTHER_HEADER
+
+    # If the include is named config.h then this is WebCore/config.h.
+    if include == "config.h":
+        return _CONFIG_HEADER
+
+    # There cannot be primary includes in header files themselves. Only an
+    # include exactly matches the header filename will be is flagged as
+    # primary, so that it triggers the "don't include yourself" check.
+    if filename.endswith('.h') and filename != include:
+        return _OTHER_HEADER;
+
+    # Qt's moc files do not follow the naming and ordering rules, so they should be skipped
+    if include.startswith('moc_') and include.endswith('.cpp'):
+        return _MOC_HEADER
+
+    if include.endswith('.moc'):
+        return _MOC_HEADER
+
+    # If the target file basename starts with the include we're checking
+    # then we consider it the primary header.
+    target_base = FileInfo(filename).base_name()
+    include_base = FileInfo(include).base_name()
+
+    # If we haven't encountered a primary header, then be lenient in checking.
+    if not include_state.visited_primary_section() and target_base.find(include_base) != -1:
+        return _PRIMARY_HEADER
+    # If we already encountered a primary header, perform a strict comparison.
+    # In case the two filename bases are the same then the above lenient check
+    # probably was a false positive.
+    elif include_state.visited_primary_section() and target_base == include_base:
+        if include == "ResourceHandleWin.h":
+            # FIXME: Thus far, we've only seen one example of these, but if we
+            # start to see more, please consider generalizing this check
+            # somehow.
+            return _OTHER_HEADER
+        return _PRIMARY_HEADER
+
+    return _OTHER_HEADER
+
+
+def check_include_line(filename, file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, include_state, error):
+    """Check rules that are applicable to #include lines.
+
+    Strings on #include lines are NOT removed from elided line, to make
+    certain tasks easier. However, to prevent false positives, checks
+    applicable to #include lines in CheckLanguage must be put here.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of the current file.
+      file_extension: The current file extension, without the leading dot.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      include_state: An _IncludeState instance in which the headers are inserted.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    # FIXME: For readability or as a possible optimization, consider
+    #        exiting early here by checking whether the "build/include"
+    #        category should be checked for the given filename.  This
+    #        may involve having the error handler classes expose a
+    #        should_check() method, in addition to the usual __call__
+    #        method.
+    line = clean_lines.lines[line_number]
+
+    matched = _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.search(line)
+    if not matched:
+        return
+
+    include = matched.group(2)
+    is_system = (matched.group(1) == '<')
+
+    # Look for any of the stream classes that are part of standard C++.
+    if match(r'(f|ind|io|i|o|parse|pf|stdio|str|)?stream$', include):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/streams', 3,
+              'Streams are highly discouraged.')
+
+    # Look for specific includes to fix.
+    if include.startswith('wtf/') and not is_system:
+        error(line_number, 'build/include', 4,
+              'wtf includes should be <wtf/file.h> instead of "wtf/file.h".')
+
+    duplicate_header = include in include_state
+    if duplicate_header:
+        error(line_number, 'build/include', 4,
+              '"%s" already included at %s:%s' %
+              (include, filename, include_state[include]))
+    else:
+        include_state[include] = line_number
+
+    header_type = _classify_include(filename, include, is_system, include_state)
+    include_state.header_types[line_number] = header_type
+
+    # Only proceed if this isn't a duplicate header.
+    if duplicate_header:
+        return
+
+    # We want to ensure that headers appear in the right order:
+    # 1) for implementation files: config.h, primary header, blank line, alphabetically sorted
+    # 2) for header files: alphabetically sorted
+    # The include_state object keeps track of the last type seen
+    # and complains if the header types are out of order or missing.
+    error_message = include_state.check_next_include_order(header_type, file_extension == "h")
+
+    # Check to make sure we have a blank line after primary header.
+    if not error_message and header_type == _PRIMARY_HEADER:
+         next_line = clean_lines.raw_lines[line_number + 1]
+         if not is_blank_line(next_line):
+            error(line_number, 'build/include_order', 4,
+                  'You should add a blank line after implementation file\'s own header.')
+
+    # Check to make sure all headers besides config.h and the primary header are
+    # alphabetically sorted. Skip Qt's moc files.
+    if not error_message and header_type == _OTHER_HEADER:
+         previous_line_number = line_number - 1;
+         previous_line = clean_lines.lines[previous_line_number]
+         previous_match = _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.search(previous_line)
+         while (not previous_match and previous_line_number > 0
+                and not search(r'\A(#if|#ifdef|#ifndef|#else|#elif|#endif)', previous_line)):
+            previous_line_number -= 1;
+            previous_line = clean_lines.lines[previous_line_number]
+            previous_match = _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.search(previous_line)
+         if previous_match:
+            previous_header_type = include_state.header_types[previous_line_number]
+            if previous_header_type == _OTHER_HEADER and previous_line.strip() > line.strip():
+                error(line_number, 'build/include_order', 4,
+                      'Alphabetical sorting problem.')
+
+    if error_message:
+        if file_extension == 'h':
+            error(line_number, 'build/include_order', 4,
+                  '%s Should be: alphabetically sorted.' %
+                  error_message)
+        else:
+            error(line_number, 'build/include_order', 4,
+                  '%s Should be: config.h, primary header, blank line, and then alphabetically sorted.' %
+                  error_message)
+
+
+def check_language(filename, clean_lines, line_number, file_extension, include_state,
+                   error):
+    """Checks rules from the 'C++ language rules' section of cppguide.html.
+
+    Some of these rules are hard to test (function overloading, using
+    uint32 inappropriately), but we do the best we can.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of the current file.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      file_extension: The extension (without the dot) of the filename.
+      include_state: An _IncludeState instance in which the headers are inserted.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    # If the line is empty or consists of entirely a comment, no need to
+    # check it.
+    line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+    if not line:
+        return
+
+    matched = _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.search(line)
+    if matched:
+        check_include_line(filename, file_extension, clean_lines, line_number, include_state, error)
+        return
+
+    # FIXME: figure out if they're using default arguments in fn proto.
+
+    # Check to see if they're using an conversion function cast.
+    # I just try to capture the most common basic types, though there are more.
+    # Parameterless conversion functions, such as bool(), are allowed as they are
+    # probably a member operator declaration or default constructor.
+    matched = search(
+        r'\b(int|float|double|bool|char|int32|uint32|int64|uint64)\([^)]', line)
+    if matched:
+        # gMock methods are defined using some variant of MOCK_METHODx(name, type)
+        # where type may be float(), int(string), etc.  Without context they are
+        # virtually indistinguishable from int(x) casts.
+        if not match(r'^\s*MOCK_(CONST_)?METHOD\d+(_T)?\(', line):
+            error(line_number, 'readability/casting', 4,
+                  'Using deprecated casting style.  '
+                  'Use static_cast<%s>(...) instead' %
+                  matched.group(1))
+
+    check_c_style_cast(line_number, line, clean_lines.raw_lines[line_number],
+                       'static_cast',
+                       r'\((int|float|double|bool|char|u?int(16|32|64))\)',
+                       error)
+    # This doesn't catch all cases.  Consider (const char * const)"hello".
+    check_c_style_cast(line_number, line, clean_lines.raw_lines[line_number],
+                       'reinterpret_cast', r'\((\w+\s?\*+\s?)\)', error)
+
+    # In addition, we look for people taking the address of a cast.  This
+    # is dangerous -- casts can assign to temporaries, so the pointer doesn't
+    # point where you think.
+    if search(
+        r'(&\([^)]+\)[\w(])|(&(static|dynamic|reinterpret)_cast\b)', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/casting', 4,
+              ('Are you taking an address of a cast?  '
+               'This is dangerous: could be a temp var.  '
+               'Take the address before doing the cast, rather than after'))
+
+    # Check for people declaring static/global STL strings at the top level.
+    # This is dangerous because the C++ language does not guarantee that
+    # globals with constructors are initialized before the first access.
+    matched = match(
+        r'((?:|static +)(?:|const +))string +([a-zA-Z0-9_:]+)\b(.*)',
+        line)
+    # Make sure it's not a function.
+    # Function template specialization looks like: "string foo<Type>(...".
+    # Class template definitions look like: "string Foo<Type>::Method(...".
+    if matched and not match(r'\s*(<.*>)?(::[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\s*\(([^"]|$)',
+                             matched.group(3)):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/string', 4,
+              'For a static/global string constant, use a C style string instead: '
+              '"%schar %s[]".' %
+              (matched.group(1), matched.group(2)))
+
+    # Check that we're not using RTTI outside of testing code.
+    if search(r'\bdynamic_cast<', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/rtti', 5,
+              'Do not use dynamic_cast<>.  If you need to cast within a class '
+              "hierarchy, use static_cast<> to upcast.  Google doesn't support "
+              'RTTI.')
+
+    if search(r'\b([A-Za-z0-9_]*_)\(\1\)', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/init', 4,
+              'You seem to be initializing a member variable with itself.')
+
+    if file_extension == 'h':
+        # FIXME: check that 1-arg constructors are explicit.
+        #        How to tell it's a constructor?
+        #        (handled in check_for_non_standard_constructs for now)
+        pass
+
+    # Check if people are using the verboten C basic types.  The only exception
+    # we regularly allow is "unsigned short port" for port.
+    if search(r'\bshort port\b', line):
+        if not search(r'\bunsigned short port\b', line):
+            error(line_number, 'runtime/int', 4,
+                  'Use "unsigned short" for ports, not "short"')
+
+    # When snprintf is used, the second argument shouldn't be a literal.
+    matched = search(r'snprintf\s*\(([^,]*),\s*([0-9]*)\s*,', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf', 3,
+              'If you can, use sizeof(%s) instead of %s as the 2nd arg '
+              'to snprintf.' % (matched.group(1), matched.group(2)))
+
+    # Check if some verboten C functions are being used.
+    if search(r'\bsprintf\b', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf', 5,
+              'Never use sprintf.  Use snprintf instead.')
+    matched = search(r'\b(strcpy|strcat)\b', line)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf', 4,
+              'Almost always, snprintf is better than %s' % matched.group(1))
+
+    if search(r'\bsscanf\b', line):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf', 1,
+              'sscanf can be ok, but is slow and can overflow buffers.')
+
+    # Check for suspicious usage of "if" like
+    # } if (a == b) {
+    if search(r'\}\s*if\s*\(', line):
+        error(line_number, 'readability/braces', 4,
+              'Did you mean "else if"? If not, start a new line for "if".')
+
+    # Check for potential format string bugs like printf(foo).
+    # We constrain the pattern not to pick things like DocidForPrintf(foo).
+    # Not perfect but it can catch printf(foo.c_str()) and printf(foo->c_str())
+    matched = re.search(r'\b((?:string)?printf)\s*\(([\w.\->()]+)\)', line, re.I)
+    if matched:
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/printf', 4,
+              'Potential format string bug. Do %s("%%s", %s) instead.'
+              % (matched.group(1), matched.group(2)))
+
+    # Check for potential memset bugs like memset(buf, sizeof(buf), 0).
+    matched = search(r'memset\s*\(([^,]*),\s*([^,]*),\s*0\s*\)', line)
+    if matched and not match(r"^''|-?[0-9]+|0x[0-9A-Fa-f]$", matched.group(2)):
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/memset', 4,
+              'Did you mean "memset(%s, 0, %s)"?'
+              % (matched.group(1), matched.group(2)))
+
+    # Detect variable-length arrays.
+    matched = match(r'\s*(.+::)?(\w+) [a-z]\w*\[(.+)];', line)
+    if (matched and matched.group(2) != 'return' and matched.group(2) != 'delete' and
+        matched.group(3).find(']') == -1):
+        # Split the size using space and arithmetic operators as delimiters.
+        # If any of the resulting tokens are not compile time constants then
+        # report the error.
+        tokens = re.split(r'\s|\+|\-|\*|\/|<<|>>]', matched.group(3))
+        is_const = True
+        skip_next = False
+        for tok in tokens:
+            if skip_next:
+                skip_next = False
+                continue
+
+            if search(r'sizeof\(.+\)', tok):
+                continue
+            if search(r'arraysize\(\w+\)', tok):
+                continue
+
+            tok = tok.lstrip('(')
+            tok = tok.rstrip(')')
+            if not tok:
+                continue
+            if match(r'\d+', tok):
+                continue
+            if match(r'0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+', tok):
+                continue
+            if match(r'k[A-Z0-9]\w*', tok):
+                continue
+            if match(r'(.+::)?k[A-Z0-9]\w*', tok):
+                continue
+            if match(r'(.+::)?[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*', tok):
+                continue
+            # A catch all for tricky sizeof cases, including 'sizeof expression',
+            # 'sizeof(*type)', 'sizeof(const type)', 'sizeof(struct StructName)'
+            # requires skipping the next token becasue we split on ' ' and '*'.
+            if tok.startswith('sizeof'):
+                skip_next = True
+                continue
+            is_const = False
+            break
+        if not is_const:
+            error(line_number, 'runtime/arrays', 1,
+                  'Do not use variable-length arrays.  Use an appropriately named '
+                  "('k' followed by CamelCase) compile-time constant for the size.")
+
+    # Check for use of unnamed namespaces in header files.  Registration
+    # macros are typically OK, so we allow use of "namespace {" on lines
+    # that end with backslashes.
+    if (file_extension == 'h'
+        and search(r'\bnamespace\s*{', line)
+        and line[-1] != '\\'):
+        error(line_number, 'build/namespaces', 4,
+              'Do not use unnamed namespaces in header files.  See '
+              'http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Namespaces'
+              ' for more information.')
+
+    check_identifier_name_in_declaration(filename, line_number, line, error)
+
+
+def check_identifier_name_in_declaration(filename, line_number, line, error):
+    """Checks if identifier names contain any underscores.
+
+    As identifiers in libraries we are using have a bunch of
+    underscores, we only warn about the declarations of identifiers
+    and don't check use of identifiers.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of the current file.
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      line: The line of code to check.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    # We don't check a return statement.
+    if match(r'\s*(return|delete)\b', line):
+        return
+
+    # Basically, a declaration is a type name followed by whitespaces
+    # followed by an identifier. The type name can be complicated
+    # due to type adjectives and templates. We remove them first to
+    # simplify the process to find declarations of identifiers.
+
+    # Convert "long long", "long double", and "long long int" to
+    # simple types, but don't remove simple "long".
+    line = sub(r'long (long )?(?=long|double|int)', '', line)
+    # Convert unsigned/signed types to simple types, too.
+    line = sub(r'(unsigned|signed) (?=char|short|int|long)', '', line)
+    line = sub(r'\b(inline|using|static|const|volatile|auto|register|extern|typedef|restrict|struct|class|virtual)(?=\W)', '', line)
+
+    # Remove all template parameters by removing matching < and >.
+    # Loop until no templates are removed to remove nested templates.
+    while True:
+        line, number_of_replacements = subn(r'<([\w\s:]|::)+\s*[*&]*\s*>', '', line)
+        if not number_of_replacements:
+            break
+
+    # Declarations of local variables can be in condition expressions
+    # of control flow statements (e.g., "if (RenderObject* p = o->parent())").
+    # We remove the keywords and the first parenthesis.
+    #
+    # Declarations in "while", "if", and "switch" are different from
+    # other declarations in two aspects:
+    #
+    # - There can be only one declaration between the parentheses.
+    #   (i.e., you cannot write "if (int i = 0, j = 1) {}")
+    # - The variable must be initialized.
+    #   (i.e., you cannot write "if (int i) {}")
+    #
+    # and we will need different treatments for them.
+    line = sub(r'^\s*for\s*\(', '', line)
+    line, control_statement = subn(r'^\s*(while|else if|if|switch)\s*\(', '', line)
+
+    # Detect variable and functions.
+    type_regexp = r'\w([\w]|\s*[*&]\s*|::)+'
+    identifier_regexp = r'(?P<identifier>[\w:]+)'
+    maybe_bitfield_regexp = r'(:\s*\d+\s*)?'
+    character_after_identifier_regexp = r'(?P<character_after_identifier>[[;()=,])(?!=)'
+    declaration_without_type_regexp = r'\s*' + identifier_regexp + r'\s*' + maybe_bitfield_regexp + character_after_identifier_regexp
+    declaration_with_type_regexp = r'\s*' + type_regexp + r'\s' + declaration_without_type_regexp
+    is_function_arguments = False
+    number_of_identifiers = 0
+    while True:
+        # If we are seeing the first identifier or arguments of a
+        # function, there should be a type name before an identifier.
+        if not number_of_identifiers or is_function_arguments:
+            declaration_regexp = declaration_with_type_regexp
+        else:
+            declaration_regexp = declaration_without_type_regexp
+
+        matched = match(declaration_regexp, line)
+        if not matched:
+            return
+        identifier = matched.group('identifier')
+        character_after_identifier = matched.group('character_after_identifier')
+
+        # If we removed a non-for-control statement, the character after
+        # the identifier should be '='. With this rule, we can avoid
+        # warning for cases like "if (val & INT_MAX) {".
+        if control_statement and character_after_identifier != '=':
+            return
+
+        is_function_arguments = is_function_arguments or character_after_identifier == '('
+
+        # Remove "m_" and "s_" to allow them.
+        modified_identifier = sub(r'(^|(?<=::))[ms]_', '', identifier)
+        if modified_identifier.find('_') >= 0:
+            # Various exceptions to the rule: JavaScript op codes functions, const_iterator.
+            if (not (filename.find('JavaScriptCore') >= 0 and modified_identifier.find('_op_') >= 0)
+                and not modified_identifier.startswith('tst_')
+                and not modified_identifier.startswith('webkit_dom_object_')
+                and not modified_identifier.startswith('qt_')
+                and not modified_identifier.find('::qt_') >= 0
+                and not modified_identifier == "const_iterator"):
+                error(line_number, 'readability/naming', 4, identifier + " is incorrectly named. Don't use underscores in your identifier names.")
+
+        # Check for variables named 'l', these are too easy to confuse with '1' in some fonts
+        if modified_identifier == 'l':
+            error(line_number, 'readability/naming', 4, identifier + " is incorrectly named. Don't use the single letter 'l' as an identifier name.")
+
+        # There can be only one declaration in non-for-control statements.
+        if control_statement:
+            return
+        # We should continue checking if this is a function
+        # declaration because we need to check its arguments.
+        # Also, we need to check multiple declarations.
+        if character_after_identifier != '(' and character_after_identifier != ',':
+            return
+
+        number_of_identifiers += 1
+        line = line[matched.end():]
+
+def check_c_style_cast(line_number, line, raw_line, cast_type, pattern,
+                       error):
+    """Checks for a C-style cast by looking for the pattern.
+
+    This also handles sizeof(type) warnings, due to similarity of content.
+
+    Args:
+      line_number: The number of the line to check.
+      line: The line of code to check.
+      raw_line: The raw line of code to check, with comments.
+      cast_type: The string for the C++ cast to recommend.  This is either
+                 reinterpret_cast or static_cast, depending.
+      pattern: The regular expression used to find C-style casts.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+    """
+    matched = search(pattern, line)
+    if not matched:
+        return
+
+    # e.g., sizeof(int)
+    sizeof_match = match(r'.*sizeof\s*$', line[0:matched.start(1) - 1])
+    if sizeof_match:
+        error(line_number, 'runtime/sizeof', 1,
+              'Using sizeof(type).  Use sizeof(varname) instead if possible')
+        return
+
+    remainder = line[matched.end(0):]
+
+    # The close paren is for function pointers as arguments to a function.
+    # eg, void foo(void (*bar)(int));
+    # The semicolon check is a more basic function check; also possibly a
+    # function pointer typedef.
+    # eg, void foo(int); or void foo(int) const;
+    # The equals check is for function pointer assignment.
+    # eg, void *(*foo)(int) = ...
+    #
+    # Right now, this will only catch cases where there's a single argument, and
+    # it's unnamed.  It should probably be expanded to check for multiple
+    # arguments with some unnamed.
+    function_match = match(r'\s*(\)|=|(const)?\s*(;|\{|throw\(\)))', remainder)
+    if function_match:
+        if (not function_match.group(3)
+            or function_match.group(3) == ';'
+            or raw_line.find('/*') < 0):
+            error(line_number, 'readability/function', 3,
+                  'All parameters should be named in a function')
+        return
+
+    # At this point, all that should be left is actual casts.
+    error(line_number, 'readability/casting', 4,
+          'Using C-style cast.  Use %s<%s>(...) instead' %
+          (cast_type, matched.group(1)))
+
+
+_HEADERS_CONTAINING_TEMPLATES = (
+    ('<deque>', ('deque',)),
+    ('<functional>', ('unary_function', 'binary_function',
+                      'plus', 'minus', 'multiplies', 'divides', 'modulus',
+                      'negate',
+                      'equal_to', 'not_equal_to', 'greater', 'less',
+                      'greater_equal', 'less_equal',
+                      'logical_and', 'logical_or', 'logical_not',
+                      'unary_negate', 'not1', 'binary_negate', 'not2',
+                      'bind1st', 'bind2nd',
+                      'pointer_to_unary_function',
+                      'pointer_to_binary_function',
+                      'ptr_fun',
+                      'mem_fun_t', 'mem_fun', 'mem_fun1_t', 'mem_fun1_ref_t',
+                      'mem_fun_ref_t',
+                      'const_mem_fun_t', 'const_mem_fun1_t',
+                      'const_mem_fun_ref_t', 'const_mem_fun1_ref_t',
+                      'mem_fun_ref',
+                     )),
+    ('<limits>', ('numeric_limits',)),
+    ('<list>', ('list',)),
+    ('<map>', ('map', 'multimap',)),
+    ('<memory>', ('allocator',)),
+    ('<queue>', ('queue', 'priority_queue',)),
+    ('<set>', ('set', 'multiset',)),
+    ('<stack>', ('stack',)),
+    ('<string>', ('char_traits', 'basic_string',)),
+    ('<utility>', ('pair',)),
+    ('<vector>', ('vector',)),
+
+    # gcc extensions.
+    # Note: std::hash is their hash, ::hash is our hash
+    ('<hash_map>', ('hash_map', 'hash_multimap',)),
+    ('<hash_set>', ('hash_set', 'hash_multiset',)),
+    ('<slist>', ('slist',)),
+    )
+
+_HEADERS_ACCEPTED_BUT_NOT_PROMOTED = {
+    # We can trust with reasonable confidence that map gives us pair<>, too.
+    'pair<>': ('map', 'multimap', 'hash_map', 'hash_multimap')
+}
+
+_RE_PATTERN_STRING = re.compile(r'\bstring\b')
+
+_re_pattern_algorithm_header = []
+for _template in ('copy', 'max', 'min', 'min_element', 'sort', 'swap',
+                  'transform'):
+    # Match max<type>(..., ...), max(..., ...), but not foo->max, foo.max or
+    # type::max().
+    _re_pattern_algorithm_header.append(
+        (re.compile(r'[^>.]\b' + _template + r'(<.*?>)?\([^\)]'),
+         _template,
+         '<algorithm>'))
+
+_re_pattern_templates = []
+for _header, _templates in _HEADERS_CONTAINING_TEMPLATES:
+    for _template in _templates:
+        _re_pattern_templates.append(
+            (re.compile(r'(\<|\b)' + _template + r'\s*\<'),
+             _template + '<>',
+             _header))
+
+
+def files_belong_to_same_module(filename_cpp, filename_h):
+    """Check if these two filenames belong to the same module.
+
+    The concept of a 'module' here is a as follows:
+    foo.h, foo-inl.h, foo.cpp, foo_test.cpp and foo_unittest.cpp belong to the
+    same 'module' if they are in the same directory.
+    some/path/public/xyzzy and some/path/internal/xyzzy are also considered
+    to belong to the same module here.
+
+    If the filename_cpp contains a longer path than the filename_h, for example,
+    '/absolute/path/to/base/sysinfo.cpp', and this file would include
+    'base/sysinfo.h', this function also produces the prefix needed to open the
+    header. This is used by the caller of this function to more robustly open the
+    header file. We don't have access to the real include paths in this context,
+    so we need this guesswork here.
+
+    Known bugs: tools/base/bar.cpp and base/bar.h belong to the same module
+    according to this implementation. Because of this, this function gives
+    some false positives. This should be sufficiently rare in practice.
+
+    Args:
+      filename_cpp: is the path for the .cpp file
+      filename_h: is the path for the header path
+
+    Returns:
+      Tuple with a bool and a string:
+      bool: True if filename_cpp and filename_h belong to the same module.
+      string: the additional prefix needed to open the header file.
+    """
+
+    if not filename_cpp.endswith('.cpp'):
+        return (False, '')
+    filename_cpp = filename_cpp[:-len('.cpp')]
+    if filename_cpp.endswith('_unittest'):
+        filename_cpp = filename_cpp[:-len('_unittest')]
+    elif filename_cpp.endswith('_test'):
+        filename_cpp = filename_cpp[:-len('_test')]
+    filename_cpp = filename_cpp.replace('/public/', '/')
+    filename_cpp = filename_cpp.replace('/internal/', '/')
+
+    if not filename_h.endswith('.h'):
+        return (False, '')
+    filename_h = filename_h[:-len('.h')]
+    if filename_h.endswith('-inl'):
+        filename_h = filename_h[:-len('-inl')]
+    filename_h = filename_h.replace('/public/', '/')
+    filename_h = filename_h.replace('/internal/', '/')
+
+    files_belong_to_same_module = filename_cpp.endswith(filename_h)
+    common_path = ''
+    if files_belong_to_same_module:
+        common_path = filename_cpp[:-len(filename_h)]
+    return files_belong_to_same_module, common_path
+
+
+def update_include_state(filename, include_state, io=codecs):
+    """Fill up the include_state with new includes found from the file.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: the name of the header to read.
+      include_state: an _IncludeState instance in which the headers are inserted.
+      io: The io factory to use to read the file. Provided for testability.
+
+    Returns:
+      True if a header was succesfully added. False otherwise.
+    """
+    header_file = None
+    try:
+        header_file = io.open(filename, 'r', 'utf8', 'replace')
+    except IOError:
+        return False
+    line_number = 0
+    for line in header_file:
+        line_number += 1
+        clean_line = cleanse_comments(line)
+        matched = _RE_PATTERN_INCLUDE.search(clean_line)
+        if matched:
+            include = matched.group(2)
+            # The value formatting is cute, but not really used right now.
+            # What matters here is that the key is in include_state.
+            include_state.setdefault(include, '%s:%d' % (filename, line_number))
+    return True
+
+
+def check_for_include_what_you_use(filename, clean_lines, include_state, error,
+                                   io=codecs):
+    """Reports for missing stl includes.
+
+    This function will output warnings to make sure you are including the headers
+    necessary for the stl containers and functions that you use. We only give one
+    reason to include a header. For example, if you use both equal_to<> and
+    less<> in a .h file, only one (the latter in the file) of these will be
+    reported as a reason to include the <functional>.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: The name of the current file.
+      clean_lines: A CleansedLines instance containing the file.
+      include_state: An _IncludeState instance.
+      error: The function to call with any errors found.
+      io: The IO factory to use to read the header file. Provided for unittest
+          injection.
+    """
+    required = {}  # A map of header name to line_number and the template entity.
+        # Example of required: { '<functional>': (1219, 'less<>') }
+
+    for line_number in xrange(clean_lines.num_lines()):
+        line = clean_lines.elided[line_number]
+        if not line or line[0] == '#':
+            continue
+
+        # String is special -- it is a non-templatized type in STL.
+        if _RE_PATTERN_STRING.search(line):
+            required['<string>'] = (line_number, 'string')
+
+        for pattern, template, header in _re_pattern_algorithm_header:
+            if pattern.search(line):
+                required[header] = (line_number, template)
+
+        # The following function is just a speed up, no semantics are changed.
+        if not '<' in line:  # Reduces the cpu time usage by skipping lines.
+            continue
+
+        for pattern, template, header in _re_pattern_templates:
+            if pattern.search(line):
+                required[header] = (line_number, template)
+
+    # The policy is that if you #include something in foo.h you don't need to
+    # include it again in foo.cpp. Here, we will look at possible includes.
+    # Let's copy the include_state so it is only messed up within this function.
+    include_state = include_state.copy()
+
+    # Did we find the header for this file (if any) and succesfully load it?
+    header_found = False
+
+    # Use the absolute path so that matching works properly.
+    abs_filename = os.path.abspath(filename)
+
+    # For Emacs's flymake.
+    # If cpp_style is invoked from Emacs's flymake, a temporary file is generated
+    # by flymake and that file name might end with '_flymake.cpp'. In that case,
+    # restore original file name here so that the corresponding header file can be
+    # found.
+    # e.g. If the file name is 'foo_flymake.cpp', we should search for 'foo.h'
+    # instead of 'foo_flymake.h'
+    abs_filename = re.sub(r'_flymake\.cpp$', '.cpp', abs_filename)
+
+    # include_state is modified during iteration, so we iterate over a copy of
+    # the keys.
+    for header in include_state.keys():  #NOLINT
+        (same_module, common_path) = files_belong_to_same_module(abs_filename, header)
+        fullpath = common_path + header
+        if same_module and update_include_state(fullpath, include_state, io):
+            header_found = True
+
+    # If we can't find the header file for a .cpp, assume it's because we don't
+    # know where to look. In that case we'll give up as we're not sure they
+    # didn't include it in the .h file.
+    # FIXME: Do a better job of finding .h files so we are confident that
+    #        not having the .h file means there isn't one.
+    if filename.endswith('.cpp') and not header_found:
+        return
+
+    # All the lines have been processed, report the errors found.
+    for required_header_unstripped in required:
+        template = required[required_header_unstripped][1]
+        if template in _HEADERS_ACCEPTED_BUT_NOT_PROMOTED:
+            headers = _HEADERS_ACCEPTED_BUT_NOT_PROMOTED[template]
+            if [True for header in headers if header in include_state]:
+                continue
+        if required_header_unstripped.strip('<>"') not in include_state:
+            error(required[required_header_unstripped][0],
+                  'build/include_what_you_use', 4,
+                  'Add #include ' + required_header_unstripped + ' for ' + template)
+
+
+def process_line(filename, file_extension,
+                 clean_lines, line, include_state, function_state,
+                 class_state, file_state, error):
+    """Processes a single line in the file.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: Filename of the file that is being processed.
+      file_extension: The extension (dot not included) of the file.
+      clean_lines: An array of strings, each representing a line of the file,
+                   with comments stripped.
+      line: Number of line being processed.
+      include_state: An _IncludeState instance in which the headers are inserted.
+      function_state: A _FunctionState instance which counts function lines, etc.
+      class_state: A _ClassState instance which maintains information about
+                   the current stack of nested class declarations being parsed.
+      file_state: A _FileState instance which maintains information about
+                  the state of things in the file.
+      error: A callable to which errors are reported, which takes arguments:
+             line number, error level, and message
+
+    """
+    raw_lines = clean_lines.raw_lines
+    check_for_function_lengths(clean_lines, line, function_state, error)
+    if search(r'\bNOLINT\b', raw_lines[line]):  # ignore nolint lines
+        return
+    check_for_multiline_comments_and_strings(clean_lines, line, error)
+    check_style(clean_lines, line, file_extension, file_state, error)
+    check_language(filename, clean_lines, line, file_extension, include_state,
+                   error)
+    check_for_non_standard_constructs(clean_lines, line, class_state, error)
+    check_posix_threading(clean_lines, line, error)
+    check_invalid_increment(clean_lines, line, error)
+
+
+def _process_lines(filename, file_extension, lines, error, min_confidence):
+    """Performs lint checks and reports any errors to the given error function.
+
+    Args:
+      filename: Filename of the file that is being processed.
+      file_extension: The extension (dot not included) of the file.
+      lines: An array of strings, each representing a line of the file, with the
+             last element being empty if the file is termined with a newline.
+      error: A callable to which errors are reported, which takes 4 arguments:
+    """
+    lines = (['// marker so line numbers and indices both start at 1'] + lines +
+             ['// marker so line numbers end in a known way'])
+
+    include_state = _IncludeState()
+    function_state = _FunctionState(min_confidence)
+    class_state = _ClassState()
+    file_state = _FileState()
+
+    check_for_copyright(lines, error)
+
+    if file_extension == 'h':
+        check_for_header_guard(filename, lines, error)
+
+    remove_multi_line_comments(lines, error)
+    clean_lines = CleansedLines(lines)
+    for line in xrange(clean_lines.num_lines()):
+        process_line(filename, file_extension, clean_lines, line,
+                     include_state, function_state, class_state, file_state, error)
+    class_state.check_finished(error)
+
+    check_for_include_what_you_use(filename, clean_lines, include_state, error)
+
+    # We check here rather than inside process_line so that we see raw
+    # lines rather than "cleaned" lines.
+    check_for_unicode_replacement_characters(lines, error)
+
+    check_for_new_line_at_eof(lines, error)
+
+
+class CppChecker(object):
+
+    """Processes C++ lines for checking style."""
+
+    # This list is used to--
+    #
+    # (1) generate an explicit list of all possible categories,
+    # (2) unit test that all checked categories have valid names, and
+    # (3) unit test that all categories are getting unit tested.
+    #
+    categories = set([
+        'build/class',
+        'build/deprecated',
+        'build/endif_comment',
+        'build/forward_decl',
+        'build/header_guard',
+        'build/include',
+        'build/include_order',
+        'build/include_what_you_use',
+        'build/namespaces',
+        'build/printf_format',
+        'build/storage_class',
+        'build/using_std',
+        'legal/copyright',
+        'readability/braces',
+        'readability/casting',
+        'readability/check',
+        'readability/comparison_to_zero',
+        'readability/constructors',
+        'readability/control_flow',
+        'readability/fn_size',
+        'readability/function',
+        'readability/multiline_comment',
+        'readability/multiline_string',
+        'readability/naming',
+        'readability/null',
+        'readability/streams',
+        'readability/todo',
+        'readability/utf8',
+        'runtime/arrays',
+        'runtime/casting',
+        'runtime/explicit',
+        'runtime/init',
+        'runtime/int',
+        'runtime/invalid_increment',
+        'runtime/max_min_macros',
+        'runtime/memset',
+        'runtime/printf',
+        'runtime/printf_format',
+        'runtime/references',
+        'runtime/rtti',
+        'runtime/sizeof',
+        'runtime/string',
+        'runtime/threadsafe_fn',
+        'runtime/virtual',
+        'whitespace/blank_line',
+        'whitespace/braces',
+        'whitespace/comma',
+        'whitespace/comments',
+        'whitespace/declaration',
+        'whitespace/end_of_line',
+        'whitespace/ending_newline',
+        'whitespace/indent',
+        'whitespace/labels',
+        'whitespace/line_length',
+        'whitespace/newline',
+        'whitespace/operators',
+        'whitespace/parens',
+        'whitespace/semicolon',
+        'whitespace/tab',
+        'whitespace/todo',
+        ])
+
+    def __init__(self, file_path, file_extension, handle_style_error,
+                 min_confidence):
+        """Create a CppChecker instance.
+
+        Args:
+          file_extension: A string that is the file extension, without
+                          the leading dot.
+
+        """
+        self.file_extension = file_extension
+        self.file_path = file_path
+        self.handle_style_error = handle_style_error
+        self.min_confidence = min_confidence
+
+    # Useful for unit testing.
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        """Return whether this CppChecker instance is equal to another."""
+        if self.file_extension != other.file_extension:
+            return False
+        if self.file_path != other.file_path:
+            return False
+        if self.handle_style_error != other.handle_style_error:
+            return False
+        if self.min_confidence != other.min_confidence:
+            return False
+
+        return True
+
+    # Useful for unit testing.
+    def __ne__(self, other):
+        # Python does not automatically deduce __ne__() from __eq__().
+        return not self.__eq__(other)
+
+    def check(self, lines):
+        _process_lines(self.file_path, self.file_extension, lines,
+                       self.handle_style_error, self.min_confidence)
+
+
+# FIXME: Remove this function (requires refactoring unit tests).
+def process_file_data(filename, file_extension, lines, error, min_confidence):
+    checker = CppChecker(filename, file_extension, error, min_confidence)
+    checker.check(lines)