Fix #14850 (Compilation fails on oraclelinux:8 (g++ 8.5.0 released in 2021))

Author: danmar

.github/workflows/CI-unixish-docker.yml

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ jobs:
           - image: "alpine:3.23"
             with_gui: false  # it appears FindQt6.cmake is not provided by any package
             full_build: false  # FIXME: test-signalhandler.cpp fails to build since feenableexcept() is missing
+          - image: "oraclelinux:8"
+            with_gui: false  # no qt6 are installed, missing GUI in old distros is OK
+            full_build: true
       fail-fast: false # Prefer quick result
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -63,6 +66,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           apk add cmake make g++ pcre-dev
 
+      - name: Install missing software on Oracle Linux
+        if: contains(matrix.image, 'oraclelinux')
+        run: |
+          yum install -y git python3 which epel-release
+          yum install -y cmake3 gcc-c++ make pcre-devel
+
       # needs to be called after the package installation since
       # - it doesn't call "apt-get update"
       - name: ccache
@@ -87,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        image: ["ubuntu:24.04", "ubuntu:25.10", "alpine:3.23"]
+        image: ["ubuntu:24.04", "ubuntu:25.10", "alpine:3.23", "oraclelinux:8"]
       fail-fast: false # Prefer quick result
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -111,6 +120,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           apk add make g++ pcre-dev bash python3 libxml2-utils
 
+      - name: Install missing software on Oracle Linux
+        if: contains(matrix.image, 'oraclelinux')
+        run: |
+          yum install -y git python3 which epel-release
+          yum install -y cmake3 gcc-c++ make pcre-devel
+
       # needs to be called after the package installation since
       # - it doesn't call "apt-get update"
       - name: ccache

lib/checks.h

@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ namespace CheckInstances
 {
     /** List of registered check classes. This is used by Cppcheck to run checks and generate documentation */
     CPPCHECKLIB const std::list<Check *>& get();
-};
+}
 
 #endif // checksH

lib/settings.cpp

@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Settings::~Settings() = default;
 Settings::Settings(const Settings&) = default;
 Settings & Settings::operator=(const Settings &) = default;
 
-Settings::Settings(Settings&&) noexcept = default;
-Settings & Settings::operator=(Settings &&) noexcept = default;
+Settings::Settings(Settings&&) CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT = default;
+Settings & Settings::operator=(Settings &&) CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT = default;
 
 std::string Settings::loadCppcheckCfg(Settings& settings, Suppressions& suppressions, bool debug)
 {

lib/settings.h

@@ -94,6 +94,18 @@ class SimpleEnableGroup {
 };
 
 
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__) && __GNUC__ <= 9
+// Hack to workaround GCC bug.
+// Details: https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/14850
+// seen on:
+// oraclelinux:8, g++-8.5
+// ubuntu:20.04, g++-9.4.0
+#define  CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT
+#else
+#define  CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT  noexcept
+#endif
+
+
 /**
  * @brief This is just a container for general settings so that we don't need
  * to pass individual values to functions or constructors now or in the
@@ -113,8 +125,8 @@ class CPPCHECKLIB WARN_UNUSED Settings {
     Settings(const Settings&);
     Settings& operator=(const Settings&);
 
-    Settings(Settings&&) noexcept;
-    Settings& operator=(Settings&&) noexcept;
+    Settings(Settings&&) CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT;
+    Settings& operator=(Settings&&) CPPCHECK_NOEXCEPT;
 
     static std::string loadCppcheckCfg(Settings& settings, Suppressions& suppressions, bool debug = false);