lint: add C++ code linter

This currently only checks for boost::bind usage.

Co-authored-by: practicalswift <practicalswift@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/lint/lint-cpp.sh b/test/lint/lint-cpp.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2020 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#
+# Check for various C++ code patterns we want to avoid.
+
+export LC_ALL=C
+
+EXIT_CODE=0
+
+OUTPUT=$(git grep -E "boost::bind\(" -- "*.cpp" "*.h")
+if [[ ${OUTPUT} != "" ]]; then
+    echo "Use of boost::bind detected. Use std::bind instead."
+    echo
+    echo "${OUTPUT}"
+    EXIT_CODE=1
+fi
+
+exit ${EXIT_CODE}
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