Contributing to hipBLAS

Contributing to hipBLAS#

Pull-request guidelines#

Our code contriubtion guidelines closely follows the model of GitHub pull-requests. The hipBLAS repository follows a workflow which dictates a /master branch where releases are cut, and a /develop branch which serves as an integration branch for new code. Pull requests should:

  • target the develop branch for integration

  • ensure code builds successfully.

  • do not break existing test cases

  • new unit tests should integrate within the existing googletest framework.

  • tests must have good code coverage

  • code must also have benchmark tests, and performance must approach the compute bound limit or memory bound limit.

Coding Guidelines:#

  • Do not use unnamed namespaces inside of header files.

  • Use either template or inline (or both) for functions defined outside of classes in header files.

  • Do not declare namespace-scope (not class-scope) functions static inside of header files unless there is a very good reason, that the function does not have any non-const static local variables, and that it is acceptable that each compilation unit will have its own independent definition of the function and its static local variables. (static class member functions defined in header files are okay.)

  • Use static for constexpr template variables until C++17, after which constexpr variables become inline variables, and thus can be defined in multiple compilation units. It is okay if the constexpr variables remain static in C++17; it just means there might be a little bit of redundancy between compilation units.

Format#

C and C++ code is formatted using clang-format. To run clang-format use the version in the /opt/rocm/llvm/bin directory. Please do not use your system’s built-in clang-format, as this may be an older version that will result in different results.

To format a file, use:

/opt/rocm/llvm/bin/clang-format -style=file -i <path-to-source-file>

To format all files, run the following script in rocBLAS directory:

#!/bin/bash
git ls-files -z *.cc *.cpp *.h *.hpp *.cl *.h.in *.hpp.in *.cpp.in | xargs -0 /opt/rocm/llvm/bin/clang-format -style=file -i

Also, githooks can be installed to format the code per-commit:

./.githooks/install

Static Code Analysis#

cppcheck is an open-source static analysis tool. This project uses this tool for performing static code analysis.

Users can use the following command to run cppcheck locally to generate the report for all files.

$ cd hipBLAS
$ cppcheck --enable=all --inconclusive --library=googletest --inline-suppr -i./build --suppressions-list=./CppCheckSuppressions.txt --template="{file}:{line}: {severity}: {id} :{message}" . 2> cppcheck_report.txt

For more information on the command line options, refer to the cppcheck manual on the web.

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