zaks.anna added a subscriber: Alexander_Droste.
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> Even though there are some doxygen-style comments in the checkers, i’ve never 
> seen doxygen actually generate any docs for checker classes. 

>  Are they useful for IDE quick-hints only?


I think it's useful to have consistent documentation format.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D20811#497585, @NoQ wrote:

> Answering myself: Hmm, so the only reason why MPI checker class appears in 
> doxygen 
> (http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1ento_1_1mpi_1_1MPIChecker.html) 
> is because this class is not in anonymous namespace (as far as i understand, 
> they needed to be multi-file for some reason). CheckerDocumentation says that 
> every checker must be wrapped in anonymous namespace, except 
> CheckerDocumentationChecker :)
>
> I don’t really see a good reason for the library functions checker to be 
> moved out of anonymous namespace or deserve a doxygen page - after all, it’s 
> all in one file, and the docs are right in front of the reader’s eyes anyway. 
> But maybe if this checker expands enough, we could expose its data structures 
> into public use, and then they'd be worth documenting :)


It has been originally written as a large set of files. If you feel strongly 
about it, we could merge it into a single file. That makes sense to me. 
@Alexander_Droste, what do you think?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D20811



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