I'm going on to tell you about how programmers walk on thin ice without even noticing it. Let's speak on shift operators <<, >>. The working principles of the shift operators are evident and...
64-bit operating systems of the Windows family can execute 32-bit programs with the help of the WoW64 (Windows on Windows 64) subsystem that emulates the 32-bit environment due to an additional...
This article demonstrates the capabilities of the static code analysis methodology. Readers are offered the chance to study samples of one hundred errors, found in open-source projects in C/C++...
C4311 and C4312 are ones of the most frequent warnings generated by the compiler for 32-bit code not adapted for migration to 64-bit platforms. They are generated only when you use the /Wp64...
We are regularly asked to check various open-source projects with the PVS-Studio analyzer. If you want to offer some project for us to analyze too, please follow this link. Another project we...
TrinityCore is a free project distributed under the GPL license. The project's purpose is to create alternative software to emulate a server of the multiplayer game World of Warcraft by...
More than a year has passed since we analyzed Notepad++ with PVS-Studio. We wanted to see how much better the PVS-Studio analyzer has become since then and which of the previous errors have...
As you know, the id Software company has laid out source codes of many of their games. We already checked some of these projects earlier. This time we decided to analyze the Quake III Arena...
This time I want to speak on the 'printf' function. Everybody has heard of software vulnerabilities and that functions like 'printf' are outlaw. But it's one thing to know that you'd better not...