The WoW64 (Windows on Windows 64) subsystem uses the register redirection and file system redirection mechanisms for 32-bit programs launched in 64-bit Windows versions while 64-bit system...
When porting 32-bit code on a 64-bit system, Visual C++ compiler may generate a lot of warnings C4267 for the code where the result of the function std::string::find() is saved into a variable of...
No, there are only 32-bit versions of Visual Studio at the moment. As Rico Mariani, the leading Visual Studio developer, writes in his blog, this is determined by several factors.
The question if these types are equivalent and which of them and when should be used is discussed very much. But in practice you may consider them equivalent and use them as you...
While porting code from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit one, you may want to make the types size_t/ptrdiff_t 32-bit again to reduce the number of errors and warnings generated by the compiler. This...
Why is the value of the %ProgramFiles% environment variable replaced with the value of %ProgramFiles(x86)% when accessing it from a 32-bit program launched in a 64-bit operating...
Memsize-types DWORD_PTR, INT_PTR, LONG_PTR, UINT_PTR and ULONG_PTR are intended to support 64-bit code and can safely store a pointer regardless of the platform capacity. But these types might...
We decided to publish this article in our knowledge base to show programmers how easily private data can get out of the program handling them. There is the V597 diagnostic rule in PVS-Studio...
This is the fourth post in which I want to share with you some useful observations on error patterns and the ways of fighting them. This time I will touch upon the subject of handling rare...
The id Software company possesses a PVS-Studio license. However, we decided to test the source codes of Doom 3 that have been recently laid out on the Internet. The result is the following...
