C++ is a wonderful language to use. It becomes even more wonderful if you're looking at it from the other side of the fence. Parsing and compiling C++ code is far from trivial. We'll take a look at possible representations of types inside a program which does just that…
We know many ways to detect performance problems, such as extremely low speed and high memory consumption. Usually tests, developers, or testers detect such applications' drawbacks. In the...
This note will answer the question - why PVS-Studio considers parameters of public methods potential sources of tainted data. The analyzer can issue warnings if such parameters haven't been...
While PVS-Studio analyses a Unity project, one may stumble upon such an error: Error was encountered while trying to open solution file '...': The solution file has two projects...
The PVS-Studio website turns 15 this year. This is quite significant for any internet resource. Back then, when our website was born, Russia announced 2006 as a year of humanities. That same year...
Do you like the ?. operator? Well, who doesn't? Many people like these concise null checks. However, today's article shows that the ?. operator may be tricky sometimes. That is, it can create...
We continue to develop PVS-Studio as a SAST solution. Thus, one of our major goals is expanding OWASP coverage. You might ask, what's the use when there's no taint analysis? That's exactly what...
From the earliest days, we used MSVC to compile the PVS-Studio C++ analyzer for Windows - then, in 2006, known as Viva64, version 1.00. With new releases, the analyzer's C++ core learned to work...
The newest PVS-Studio static analyzer version will please you with these features: tainted data analysis, .NET 5 support. The Blame Notifier utility can now sort warnings by commit date.
Episode 278 of CppCast is an inspiring story how guest Andreas Kling overcame his drug addiction by creating and developing a new open-source operating system in C++. He named it after the...