# Clang 18.1.8 documentation

## ClangCheck

ClangCheck is a small wrapper around LibTooling which can be used to do basic error checking and AST dumping.

    $ cat <<EOF > snippet.cc
    > void f() {
    >   int a = 0
    > }
    > EOF
    $ ~/clang/build/bin/clang-check snippet.cc -ast-dump --
    Processing: /Users/danieljasper/clang/llvm/tools/clang/docs/snippet.cc.
    /Users/danieljasper/clang/llvm/tools/clang/docs/snippet.cc:2:12: error: expected ';' at end of
          declaration
      int a = 0
               ^
               ;
    (TranslationUnitDecl 0x7ff3a3029ed0 <<invalid sloc>>
      (TypedefDecl 0x7ff3a302a410 <<invalid sloc>> __int128_t '__int128')
      (TypedefDecl 0x7ff3a302a470 <<invalid sloc>> __uint128_t 'unsigned __int128')
      (TypedefDecl 0x7ff3a302a830 <<invalid sloc>> __builtin_va_list '__va_list_tag [1]')
      (FunctionDecl 0x7ff3a302a8d0 </Users/danieljasper/clang/llvm/tools/clang/docs/snippet.cc:1:1, line:3:1> f 'void (void)'
        (CompoundStmt 0x7ff3a302aa10 <line:1:10, line:3:1>
          (DeclStmt 0x7ff3a302a9f8 <line:2:3, line:3:1>
            (VarDecl 0x7ff3a302a980 <line:2:3, col:11> a 'int'
              (IntegerLiteral 0x7ff3a302a9d8 <col:11> 'int' 0))))))
    1 error generated.
    Error while processing snippet.cc.

The ‘–’ at the end is important as it prevents clang-check from searching for a compilation database. For more information on how to setup and use clang-check in a project, see How To Setup Clang Tooling For LLVM.