The today's post is devoted to the question why tools of static source code analysis are helpful regardless of programmer's knowledge and skill. I will demonstrate the benefit of static analysis...
Applications built with the help of the new version of the Visual C++ compiler included into the Visual Studio 2010 development environment cannot be executed anymore in operating systems of...
As you know, the byte order in integer numbers which are represented by more than one byte may be different on different computers. There are computer systems where the most significant byte of...
Giving up the support of the inline assembler code (through the key word __asm) when compiling applications for the 64-bit platforms Intel 64 and IA-64 is most probably related to the wish of...
Programming is hard. I hope no one would argue that. But the topic of new programming languages, or more exactly, search of a "silver bullet" is always highly popular with software developers...
In Visual Studio C++ compiler, there is the warning C4311 ('variable' : pointer truncation from 'type' to 'type') intended to detect errors of casting a pointer to 32-bit data types. This...
While telling programmers about 64-bit issues they may encounter when porting their programs, I often hear reproaches: "Yes, surely - such is your Windows... How good it is that Linux has had...
The Application Developer Days conference was held in Yaroslavl September 23-24, 2010. The conference's symbol was a "stop" sign for woodpeckers - it meant that only those reports which were...