HP Code Advisor

6 Generating Reports
Cadvise either stores the diagnostic messages in the PDB or outputs them into the stderr. To
analyze these diagnostic messages you can generate a report using the cadvise report command.
Cadvise report provides multiple options for filtering the diagnostic messages stored in the log
files. These reports can also be viewed and saved as HTML files. Using these options, you can
view a selected set of diagnostic messages. The cadvise reports can be generated from the
following:
• The PDB Cadvise builds that use the -pdb option store the diagnostic messages in the
program database. The following command generates report from the PDB:
cadvise report <report-options> -pdb pdbdir
• The log files Cadvise builds that do not use the -pdb option, output them into stderr.
You can redirect these to a log file for later analysis. The following command generates the
report from log files:
cadvise report <report-options> logfile
6.1 Report Generation Options Table
You can use the following options to generate reports:
Prints the summary information of all messages in the log file.-summary
Prints the summary information for each source file.-file_summary
Prints all the messages in the log file.-all
Displays the reports in HTML.-html[=<dir>]
Generates the specified cadvise reports in XML format.-xml[=<filename>]
Prints only those diagnostics with specified diagnostic numbers,N1,N2..Nn.-diag N1,N2,N3,...,Nn
Prints the messages with severity >= to N.-severity N
Suppresses diagnostics or metrics from source files that have any of the specified
strings in the filename path.
-exclude
<string1:string2:...:stringN>
Generates diagnostics or metrics from source files that contain the any of the
specified string in the file name path. Messages from other files are suppressed.
-include
<string1:string2:...:stringN>
Prints program complexity data for all or selected source files.+metrics
Generates report only for source files that make up the module <name>.-module <name>
Suppresses the report header in cadvise reports.-noheader
Enables you to modify the severity of diagnostic DNn to SLn.-chseverity
<DN1:SL1,DN2:SL2,...,DNn:SLn>
Enables you to compare PDB <pdb-name> with the PDB specified using -pdb option.-basepdb <basepdbname>
Reads the report options from the specified file.+opts <file>
6.2 Generating Summary Reports
The -summary option prints the summary information about all messages in the log file in the
order of security level. This is the default.
The following example shows the summary report.
6.1 Report Generation Options Table 37