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Mar 22 2016
Detecting Overflows of 32-Bit Variables in Long Loops in 64-Bit Programs
Andrey Karpov
One of the problems that 64-bit software developers have to face is overflows of 32-bit variables in very long loops. PVS-Studio code analyzer is very good at catching issues of this type (see...
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Mar 21 2016
Serious Sam shooter anniversary - finding bugs in the code of the Serious Engine v.1.10
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
The first-person shooter 'Serious Sam' celebrated its release anniversary on March, 2016. In honor of this, the game developers form the Croatian company Croteam decided to open the source code...
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Mar 18 2016
Analyzing the GTK+ Cross-Platform Widget Toolkit with PVS-Studio
Roman Fomichev
Widget toolkits are used to make the process of application GUI development easier, and GTK+ is one of them. It is this project that I picked for my first article about the PVS-Studio analyzer...
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Mar 16 2016
Checking PVS-Studio plugin with PVS-Studio analyzer
Vitaliy Alferov
One of the questions that people ask us all the time since the creation of PVS-Studio is - "Do you check PVS-Studio with PVS-Studio? Where is the article about the analysis results?" So the answer...
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Mar 14 2016
An unusual bug in Lucene.Net
Ilya Ivanov
Listening to stories about static analysis, some programmers say that they don't really need it, as their code is entirely covered by unit tests, and that's enough to catch all the bugs. Recently...
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Mar 10 2016
A fresh eye on Oracle VM VirtualBox
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
Virtual machines are important tools in the arsenal of a software developer. Being an active user of VirtualBox, and checking various open source projects with the help of it, I was...
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Mar 09 2016
Catching Errors in the Xenko Game Engine
Sergey Vasiliev
Open-source engines in C++ are much more common than those written in C#. But there are exceptions: Xenko is one such engine, open-source and written in C#. In this article, you will learn...
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Mar 03 2016
Just a Few Bugs in 514K Lines of Code - Amazon Web Services SDK for C++
Irina Zamogilnaya
Amazon Web Services open-sourced C++ SDK, a modern C++ interface with lightweight dependencies. This prompted our team to apply PVS-Studio static analysis tool to the source code in order to try...
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Feb 17 2016
PVS-Studio delved into the FreeBSD kernel
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
About a year ago we checked the Linux core. It was one of the most discussed articles at that time. We also got quite a number of requests to check FreeBSD, so finally we decided to take the time...
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Feb 12 2016
Unicorn in Space: Analyzing the Source Code of 'Space Engineers'
Sergey Vasiliev
As you've already figured out from the title, in this article we are going to discuss suspicious fragments found in the source code of the 'Space Engineers' project. The format of this...
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