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    Add a tool for the Clang Static Analyzer.

    Review Request #8819 — Created March 16, 2017 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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    This change adds a new Review Bot tool to run clang --analyze.

    Setting up clang properly requires some configuration. In particular, the
    static analyzer needs the compiler to be able to run successfully (though not
    the linker), so the user may need to add a bunch of import paths or other
    configuration to the command line. I've facilitated this by including a setting
    for additional command-line arguments, which is split with shlex and then
    appended to the clang command line.

    Clang is the first tool that can actually report multiple lines per comment.
    I've fixed up the review functionality to properly translate the line numbers
    for this.

    Connected the git repository to my local Review Board, configured it in the
    Review Bot worker, and then used the post-commit UI to create review requests
    for a bunch of different commits. Most of them are pretty clean, but saw that
    in a few cases, the clang static analyzer ran successfully and reported the
    bugs.