Fun is fun, but extra caution never hurts anyone. What if it's not completely clear why some of the tips are terrible? Here you can find the relevant...
Some developers may be dismissive of checks: they deliberately do not check whether the malloc function allocated memory or not. Their reasoning is simple — they think that there will be...
The PVS-Studio static analyzer encompasses the symbolic execution mechanism. And today we have a great opportunity to demonstrate how this feature helps find...
If you regularly use a static code analyzer, you can save time on guessing why the new code doesn't work as planned. Let's look at another interesting error — the function broke during...
Let's continue with a series of small notes illustrating the PVS-Studio's ability to quickly find new errors in the code. If the analyzer is regularly used, of course :). Today we have another bug...
This article contains a very interesting example. The absence of the return statement in a value-returning function leads to undefined behavior. It's a perfect example of how wrong code can crash...
In various discussions, we have already commented on how the PVS-Studio C and C++ module works with memory. Now it's time to make a small article from this...
When developers do make mistakes, it's often accidental or because the developers are in a hurry. These errors often make their way into small edits to the code. Let's review one of these cases...
PVS-Studio provides static analyzers for C, C++, C# and Java languages on Windows, Linux and macOS platforms. PVS-Studio analyzers can vary slightly due to certain features that the languages...