We thought of checking the Boost library long ago but were not sure if we would collect enough results to write an article. However, the wish remained. We tried to do that twice but gave up each...
We haven't used PVS-Studio to check games for a long time. So, this time we decided to return to this practice and picked out the MTA project. Multi Theft Auto (MTA) is a multiplayer modification...
The Chromium browser is developing very fast. When we checked the solution for the first time in 2011, it included 473 projects. Now it includes 1169 projects. We were curious to know if...
This time we will discuss virtual inheritance in C++ and find out why one should be very careful using it. See other articles of this series: N1, N2...
We gave the TortoiseSVN developers a free registration key for some time so that they could check their project. While they haven't utilized it yet, I've decided to download the TortoiseSVN...
There exists the NetXMS project, which is a software product designed to monitor computer systems and networks. It can be used to monitor the whole IT-infrastructure, from SNMP-compatible devices...
We have checked the header files from the Embarcadero C++Builder XE3 project. In fact, it means that we have checked just a small number of inline-functions. Accordingly, quite few issues were...
We have checked the Windows 8 Driver Samples pack with our analyzer PVS-Studio and found various bugs in its samples. There is nothing horrible about it - bugs can be found everywhere, so the...
According to the C++ standard, the pointer size depends on the particular compiler implementation and does not relate directly to the platform capacity. In its turn, within the framework of...
At present, the Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC compilers do not allow you to use 32-bit pointers in 64-bit software created for processors based on x86-64 architecture. You can use 64-bit registers...