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Posts: #Cpp

Posts: # Cpp

Jan 15 2015
Reflections on the Null Pointer Dereferencing Issue
Andrey Karpov
As I have recently found out, the question whether or not the code &((T*)(0)->x) is correct appears to be quite complicated. I decided to write a small post on this...
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Jan 12 2015
The tyranny of averages
Mikhail Nikishin
Let us begin with mentioning that this article is completely non-serious. New Year is coming, holidays are almost there and there is no reason to do anything deliberate. That is why we decided...
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Jan 03 2015
PVS-Studio Probes into Linux' Innards (3.18.1)
Andrey Karpov, Sviatoslav Razmyslov
For the sake of advertisement, we decided to analyze the Linux kernel with our static code analyzer. The difficulty of this task makes it especially interesting. Linux' source codes have...
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Dec 24 2014
Analysis of the The Powder Toy Simulator
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances. The game provides you...
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Dec 03 2014
Spring RTS Engine Checkup
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
Spring RTS is a game engine for real-time strategy (RTS) video games. Spring was originally created to reproduce the Total Annihilation game popular in the 90\00-s. During the later years, a lot...
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Nov 28 2014
Miranda NG Project to Get the "Wild Pointers" Award (Part 2)
Andrey Karpov
In this article, we continue to discuss errors found in the Miranda NG project by the PVS-Studio static code analyzer. Last time we were talking about pointers and memory handling. This time we...
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Nov 25 2014
Miranda NG Project to Get the "Wild Pointers" Award (Part 1)
Andrey Karpov
I have recently got to the Miranda NG project and checked it with the PVS-Studio code analyzer. And I'm afraid this is the worst project in regard to memory and pointers handling issues I've...
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Oct 13 2014
A Slipshod Check of the Visual C++ 2013 Library (update 3)
Andrey Karpov
Someone suggested to me recently that I check the libraries from Visual Studio 2013. I haven't found anything of much interest, just a few small errors and slip-ups. They wouldn't make...
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Oct 10 2014
Virtual Method Table and accident prevention
Mikhail Nikishin
As a small warm-up before the article, I would like readers to ask themselves: does a photographer need to know how camera works in order to make qualitative photos? Well, does he need to know...
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Oct 08 2014
Analyzing the Network Security Services Library
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. It implements cryptographic functions in...
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