Some cleanup and utilities added on cppcheck-misra

.gitignore

@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ build
 cmake-build-debug
 docs
 
+# Dump and continuous integration files
+*.dump
+__pycache__
+/ci/cppcheckdata.py
+/ci/misra.py
+/ci/report.msr
+
 # Prerequisites
 *.d
 
@@ -65,3 +72,6 @@ docs
 .idea/**/uiDesigner.xml
 .idea/**/dbnavigator.xml
 .idea/**/markdown-*
+
+# IDEs
+.vscode
\ No newline at end of file

ci/cppcheck-misra.sh

@@ -7,18 +7,25 @@
 # $ ci/cppcheck-misra.sh
 #
 
+# make sure we are in the correct directory, regardless of where the script was called from
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
+
 echo -e "\u001b[34;1mGetting prerequisites...\u001b[0m"
 # grab the MISRA addon and the cppcheck addon interface from github
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmar/cppcheck/f4b5b156d720c712f6ce99f6e01d8c1b3f800d52/addons/misra.py > ci/misra.py
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmar/cppcheck/f4b5b156d720c712f6ce99f6e01d8c1b3f800d52/addons/cppcheckdata.py > ci/cppcheckdata.py
 
+# clean up old files
+echo -e "\u001b[34;1mRemoving old files...\u001b[0m"
+echo > ci/report.msr # clear the report file
+find inc/ src/ -type f -name "*.dump" | xargs rm
+
 # generate dump files (XML representations of AST etc.) for all headers, source files etc.
 echo -e "\u001b[34;1mGenerating dump files...\u001b[0m"
 find inc/ src/ -type f \( -iname "*.cpp" -or -iname "*.hpp" \) | xargs cppcheck --dump
 
 # run the MISRA checks against the dumps and send the results to a file
 echo -e "\u001b[34;1mRunning MISRA C(2012) rule compliance tests...\u001b[0m"
-echo > ci/report.msr # clear the report file
 find inc/ src/ -type f -name "*.dump" | xargs python3 ci/misra.py >> ci/report.msr 2>&1
 
 # pre-process the generated report to remove all useless strings