Detecting superfluous #includes in C/C++?

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Google’s cppclean (links to: download, documentation) can find several categories of C++ problems, and it can now find superfluous #includes.

There’s also a Clang-based tool, include-what-you-use, that can do this. include-what-you-use can even suggest forward declarations (so you don’t have to #include so much) and optionally clean up your #includes for you.

Current versions of Eclipse CDT also have this functionality built in: going under the Source menu and clicking Organize Includes will alphabetize your #include’s, add any headers that Eclipse thinks you’re using without directly including them, and comments out any headers that it doesn’t think you need. This feature isn’t 100% reliable, however.

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