Just like other static analyzers, PVS-Studio often produces false positives. What you are about to read is a short story where I'll tell you how PVS-Studio proved, just one more time, to be...
LibreOffice is a powerful Office package, which is free for private, educational and commercial use. Programmers working on it, develop a wonderful product that is used in many areas as...
Every now and then, we re-check projects that we already checked and mentioned in our articles in the past. Qt is one of them. The last time we checked it with PVS-Studio was in 2014. Starting...
Perl 5 was chosen to expand the list of open source programming languages that have been tested using the PVS-Studio static code analyzer. This article is about found errors and difficulties...
Investigating warnings of the PVS-Studio analyzer when checking various open source projects, we see for ourselves again and again how useful this tool can be. The code analyzer is...
0 A.D. is a 3D game in the genre of historical real-time strategy, developed by a community of volunteers. The size of the code base is small and I decided to perform checking of this game as a...
Development of large complex projects is impossible without the use of programming techniques and tools helping to monitor the quality of the code. First, it requires a literate coding standard...
The Vangers: One for the Road video game just recently turned 20. To celebrate this event, we decided to check the source code of the project and make a review of interesting bugs found. This...
A pointer references a location in memory and dereferencing a pointer refers to the lookup of the value of the memory location the pointer references. The value of a pointer is a memory address...
My name is Victoria and I have recently joined the PVS-Studio team as a C++ developer. One of the ways to get acquainted with the analyzer and its diagnostics is to check a project and sort...