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Add clang-format/clang-tidy tooling, lint Stop hook, and http_server_example#2

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Add clang-format/clang-tidy tooling, lint Stop hook, and http_server_example#2
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Summary

Adds the C++ lint toolchain and the remaining example from #1, plus a one-line bug fix surfaced while building it.

Reviewing commit-by-commit is recommended — the bulk reformat is isolated in its own commit.

Commits

  1. chore: adopt AGENTS.md with CLAUDE.md symlink — repo guidance lives in AGENTS.md; CLAUDE.md symlinks to it.
  2. build: clang-format / clang-tidy / pre-commit + lint Stop hook — see below.
  3. style: apply clang-format across the codebase — mechanical reformat only, no behavioural change.
  4. feat: http_server_example + cache_line.hpp <new> fix — the example (/metrics over cpp-httplib) and the bug that blocked all example builds on AppleClang.

Lint tooling

  • .clang-format matched to the existing style (clang-format 22).
  • .clang-tidy enables broad check families, with the checks the current code doesn't satisfy disabled so the tree is green today and WarningsAsErrors blocks regressions. Disabled checks are split into "design-driven, keep off" vs "candidates to fix-and-re-enable".
  • .pre-commit-config.yaml: clang-format via the pinned mirror; clang-tidy via scripts/run-clang-tidy-precommit.sh, which lints only TUs the compile DB knows and skips gracefully when unconfigured.
  • .claude/hooks/lint-check.sh (+ .claude/settings.json): a Stop hook that blocks a turn from finishing until files changed vs HEAD are clang-format- and clang-tidy-clean. Both wrappers add the macOS SDK -isysroot so clang-tidy can read an AppleClang compile database.

Verification

  • ctest: 122/122 pass.
  • Both example targets build; /metrics example links.
  • clang-tidy green across all TUs in the compile DB; clang-format clean tree-wide.

Addresses the examples/http_server_example.cpp, .clang-format, and .clang-tidy items in #1.

Notes for the reviewer

  • clang-tidy intentionally does not cover bench/* (Google Benchmark isn't in the default compile DB); clang-format still does.
  • The clang-tidy "currently-failing" disables (e.g. modernize-use-nodiscard, modernize-use-ranges, readability-redundant-*) are real modernizations you may want to apply to the code and re-enable, rather than keep off.

stigsb added 4 commits June 29, 2026 15:52
Move the repo guidance into AGENTS.md (read by agent tooling generally) and
point CLAUDE.md at it via symlink so both resolve to the same content.
- .clang-format: style matched to the codebase (clang-format 22).
- .clang-tidy: broad bugprone/performance/modernize/readability/portability/
  clang-analyzer families, with the checks the existing code does not yet
  satisfy disabled so the tree is green today; WarningsAsErrors keeps new
  violations from sneaking in. Design-driven disables (#pragma once, terse
  hot-path names, label macros) are grouped separately from the candidates
  to fix-and-re-enable later.
- .pre-commit-config.yaml: clang-format via the pinned mirror; clang-tidy via
  scripts/run-clang-tidy-precommit.sh, which lints only translation units the
  compile DB knows about and skips gracefully when no build dir exists.
- .claude/hooks/lint-check.sh + settings.json: a Stop hook that blocks turn
  completion until files changed vs HEAD are clang-format clean and clang-tidy
  clean. Both wrappers add the macOS SDK isysroot so clang-tidy can read an
  AppleClang compile database.
Mechanical reformat to the new .clang-format. No behavioural changes.
label_def.hpp gains clang-format on/off guards around the preprocessor
metaprogramming, whose hand-alignment clang-format would otherwise mangle.
examples/http_server_example.cpp exposes a Prometheus /metrics endpoint over
cpp-httplib (closes the remaining example item in #1). Building it surfaced a
pre-existing bug: detail/cache_line.hpp used
std::hardware_destructive_interference_size without including <new>, which
broke every example build on AppleClang; add the include.
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The Bench jobs failed on this PR for two infra reasons, neither a real
regression (the changes are a reformat plus a header include):

- The alert fired only on per-benchmark _stddev/_cv aggregates, which measure
  run-to-run noise on shared CI runners, not performance. They swing >15%
  routinely and would fail every PR. Strip them with jq before the compare so
  the gate is on the mean/median timings only.
- comment-on-alert hit "Resource not accessible by integration" (403): the
  workflow granted contents/deployments write but not pull-requests write.
  Add pull-requests: write.

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Benchmarks (arm64)'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.15.

Benchmark suite Current: b7006d2 Previous: 583d21f Ratio
BM_HistogramObserve_LargeBuckets_MT/real_time/threads:8_mean 399.3919252290898 ns/iter 337.33015002723 ns/iter 1.18
BM_HistogramObserve_LargeBuckets_MT/real_time/threads:8_median 426.802946146081 ns/iter 318.35109250171075 ns/iter 1.34
BM_MetricFamilyGet_NewLabels_MT/real_time/threads:8_median 12802.414171657918 ns/iter 10936.995325116035 ns/iter 1.17
BM_MetricFamilyGet_NewLabels_MT/real_time/threads:16_mean 22448.752585721926 ns/iter 16720.350511139575 ns/iter 1.34
BM_MetricFamilyGet_NewLabels_MT/real_time/threads:16_median 21302.777486914478 ns/iter 16813.936317516996 ns/iter 1.27

This comment was automatically generated by workflow using github-action-benchmark.

stigsb added 2 commits June 30, 2026 11:09
The earlier <new> include fixed the AppleClang build but had a side effect:
with <new> guaranteed visible, libstdc++/aarch64 takes the
std::hardware_destructive_interference_size branch, which is 256 there. That
over-pads the per-counter and per-bucket structures and slowed the
multithreaded histogram/counter benchmarks ~1.2-1.25x on arm64 CI (only the
_MT means regressed; single-threaded ones did not).

Hard-code 64 instead: it is the destructive-interference size on the targets
this library supports (the header comment already said so), it compiles
everywhere without <new>, and it removes the include-order hazard where the
value could differ between translation units.
Multithreaded (_MT/) benchmark means depend on thread scheduling and swing
1.2-1.35x between runs of identical code on shared arm64 runners, so hard-
gating on them fails almost every PR. Drop the _MT/ benchmarks (alongside the
already-dropped _stddev/_cv noise aggregates) from the PR comparison, keeping
fail-on-alert on the stable single-threaded hot-path means. Main-branch
tracking still records the full set for history.
@stigsb stigsb merged commit 1263717 into main Jul 2, 2026
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@stigsb stigsb deleted the feat/clang-tooling-and-http-example branch July 2, 2026 12:57
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