CCBM 5.8.2 now available (maintenance)

Posted on February 17, 2026 in category Releases/CCBM

A maintenance release is now available. Consider updating if you are using Version 5.8.1 or older.

Display Logic:
- do NOT mark case/default labels as coding (Mantis-19906)
  but try to identify lines after that correctly
- added support for anonymous structs / unions (FR #21499)
- added limited support for compound literals (FR #21500)
  new entry in ccbm-coding-requirements.txt for clarification:
  (!) <23> No compound initializers without simple type cast
Coverage Merge:
- ccbm_mco --html adds <A NAME... /> anchors for missed lines (for –diff: reached lines); suppress this with --no-anchors Anchors allow RTT-Plugin to navigate to these lines via Outline (FR #19776)
  In-document links to these anchors are also created, new option --anchor-links N allows to configure this (FR#19869)
- ccbm_mco --analysis accepts MD5:<id> file identification (FR#19584)
  (the md5sum is computed with Unix-style NL line-breaks)
- asts-ccbm-textual-merge-coverage allows option --no-unreach
  (forwarded to ccbm_mco)

Preprocessing (ccbm_prep):
- ensure marker is always first statement in while() body (fixes #19502)
- #if/#elif may be followed directly by parenthesis better error message when #if/#endif do not match (fixes #20189)
- do-while processing of do ... while(<expr>)<text>;
  now preserves <text> verbatim (fixes #22468)
Coverage Merge (ccbm_mco):
- ccbm_mco keeps [un]coding status of CCBM() markers when merging,
  except for preprocessing macros (fixes #19890)
- ccbm_mco treats un-terminated BEGIN UNREACHABLE blocks
  correctly (in TOTAL) and issues WARNING to user (#19794)
- ccbm_coverage ignores control flow keywords if they
  occur in comments or non-coding parts (fixes #19844)

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