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...
Video games are among the most popular software products. Now a new game engine, Amazon Lumberyard, has joined this huge industry. The project is currently in the beta phase and still has time to...
For a start, it is worth to remember what is vulnerability, and why one shouldn't trust data received from outside. The vulnerabilities are simple bugs that will make you famous all over...
If you are a software developer working in the video game industry and wondering what else you could do to improve the quality of your product or make the development process easier and you don't...
