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Aug 29 2012
100% code coverage by static analysis - is it that good?
Dmitry Novikov
Many programmers think that the more error messages a static code analyzer produces, the better. It would be true if all the messages hit the bull's eye, as they say. But this is impossible: the same...
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Aug 21 2012
Analysis of the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) project
Andrey Karpov
To be honest, I don't know what the TPP project is intended for. As far as I understand, this is a set of tools to assist in research of proteins and their interaction in living organisms. However...
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Aug 20 2012
Static analysis should be used regularly
Andrey Karpov
We have a practice of occasionally re-analyzing projects we have already checked with PVS-Studio. There are several reasons why we do so. For example, we want to know if we have managed to eliminate...
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Aug 14 2012
Can I port code to a 64-bit platform under a 32-bit platform?
Andrey Karpov
Yes, you can do this if you use a cross-compiler that creates a native code for a platform different from that on which your code is executed.
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Aug 14 2012
What is the POINTER_32 macro?
Andrey Karpov
The POINTER_32 macro is a standard Windows SDK macro usually declared in header files BaseTsd.h, Ntdef.h or Winnt.h.
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Aug 14 2012
Why do 64-bit operating systems use only 48-bit addresses for addressing?
Andrey Karpov
Addresses used in a program, i.e. pointer values, are so called "virtual addresses". The processor contains a small amount of ultra-fast associative memory that stores conversions of several (usually...
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Jul 23 2012
Software diseases: memset
Andrey Karpov
While analyzing the source codes of various programs I can't help creating associations that each program has a tendency to certain diseases. In many projects you can easily make out patterns of...
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Jul 16 2012
Is it possible to run PVS-Studio in Linux?
Evgenii Ryzhkov
Sometimes our customers wonder if it is possible to run PVS-Studio in Linux. Today we are ready to tell you about our research regarding this issue.
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Jul 09 2012
PVS-Studio: Testimonials
Andrey Karpov
I've decided to collect comments of various people concerning our static code analyzer PVS-Studio in one article. Some comments are cited in full and others only partly. You can read the original...
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Jul 06 2012
Comparing static analysis in Visual Studio 2012 (Visual C++ 2012) and PVS-Studio
Evgenii Ryzhkov, Paul Eremeev
After Visual Studio 2012 was released with a new static analysis unit included in all of the product's editions, a natural question arises: "Is PVS-Studio still relevant as a static analysis tool or...
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