On forums I'm constantly asked questions concerning search of incorrect explicit type conversion when porting code on a 64-bit platform. I decided to write this small note so that I could...
Finally I've come to implementation of diagnosis in Viva64 analyzer detecting structures with non-optimal arrangement of fields. Absence in VivaCore of support of type calculations for small...
While telling people about problems and difficulties of developing 64-bit applications I often hear in response: "You just should write programs well and there will be no problems". What only have...
The article briefly describes AMD64 architecture by AMD Company and its implementation EM64T by Intel Company. The architecture's peculiarities, advantages and disadvantages are...
The article compares a specialized static analyzer Viva64 with universal static analyzers Parasoft C++Test and Gimpel Software PC-Lint. The comparison is carried within the framework of the task...
The purpose of this article is to answer some questions related to safe port of C/C++ code on 64-bit systems. The article is written as an answer to the topic often discussed on forums and related...
Appearance of 64-bit processors on PC market made developers face the task of converting old 32-bit applications for new platforms. After the migration of the application code it is highly...
64-bit systems appeared more than 10 years ago, but we became closely acquainted with them comparatively recently when they came to the mass computer market. More and more software developers...
Though the history of 64-bit systems development makes more than a decade, the appearance of 64-bit version of OS Windows raised new problems in the sphere of development and testing applications...