Fix #14029 Information message normalCheckLevelMaxBranches reported unconditionally (#7692)

Author: chrchr-github

lib/forwardanalyzer.cpp

@@ -684,7 +684,9 @@ namespace {
                            Token::simpleMatch(tok->linkAt(1), ") {")) {
                     if ((settings.vfOptions.maxForwardBranches > 0) && (++branchCount > settings.vfOptions.maxForwardBranches)) {
                         // TODO: should be logged on function-level instead of file-level
-                        reportError(Severity::information, "normalCheckLevelMaxBranches", "Limiting analysis of branches. Use --check-level=exhaustive to analyze all branches.");
+                        if (settings.severity.isEnabled(Severity::information)) {
+                            reportError(Severity::information, "normalCheckLevelMaxBranches", "Limiting analysis of branches. Use --check-level=exhaustive to analyze all branches.");
+                        }
                         return Break(Analyzer::Terminate::Bail);
                     }
                     Token* endCond = tok->linkAt(1);

test/cli/other_test.py

@@ -2038,6 +2038,17 @@ def test_builddir_hash_check_level(tmp_path):  # #13376
     build_dir = tmp_path / 'b1'
     os.mkdir(build_dir)
 
+    args = [ # // #14029
+        '--enable=warning',  # to execute the code which generates the normalCheckLevelMaxBranches message
+        '--cppcheck-build-dir={}'.format(build_dir),
+        '--template=simple',
+        str(test_file)
+    ]
+
+    exitcode, stdout, stderr = cppcheck(args)
+    assert exitcode == 0, stdout
+    assert stderr == ''
+
     args = [
         '--enable=warning',  # to execute the code which generates the normalCheckLevelMaxBranches message
         '--enable=information',  # to show the normalCheckLevelMaxBranches message