Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience.
Accept
to the top
>
Posts

Posts: articles

Apr 07 2016
Toonz code leaves much to be desired
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
Recently the world got to know that Digital Video, the makers of TOONZ, and DWANGO, a Japanese publisher, have signed an agreement for the acquisition by Dwango of Toonz, an animation software...
...
Apr 06 2016
Safe Clearing of Private Data
Roman Fomichev
We often need to store private data in programs, for example passwords, secret keys, and their derivatives, and we usually need to clear their traces in the memory after using them so that...
...
Subscribe to the newsletter
Want to receive a monthly digest of the most interesting articles and news? Subscribe!
Apr 04 2016
Analyzing Samba with PVS-Studio on Linux
Aurelien Aptel
If you have followed the last developement in C/C++ static analysis tools you must have heard of PVS-Studio. I heard of them through the articles they publish on their site where they analyze...
...
Mar 29 2016
Type Conversion in C++ and C# Arithmetic Expressions
Ilya Ivanov
In arithmetic expressions, the types of operands can be converted to a common type. Such conversions are described in the language standard, and in C# they are much simpler than in C++. However...
...
Mar 22 2016
Detecting Overflows of 32-Bit Variables in Long Loops in 64-Bit Programs
Andrey Karpov
One of the problems that 64-bit software developers have to face is overflows of 32-bit variables in very long loops. PVS-Studio code analyzer is very good at catching issues of this type (see...
...
Mar 21 2016
Serious Sam shooter anniversary - finding bugs in the code of the Serious Engine v.1.10
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
The first-person shooter 'Serious Sam' celebrated its release anniversary on March, 2016. In honor of this, the game developers form the Croatian company Croteam decided to open the source code...
...
Mar 18 2016
Analyzing the GTK+ Cross-Platform Widget Toolkit with PVS-Studio
Roman Fomichev
Widget toolkits are used to make the process of application GUI development easier, and GTK+ is one of them. It is this project that I picked for my first article about the PVS-Studio analyzer...
...
Mar 16 2016
Checking PVS-Studio plugin with PVS-Studio analyzer
Vitaliy Alferov
One of the questions that people ask us all the time since the creation of PVS-Studio is - "Do you check PVS-Studio with PVS-Studio? Where is the article about the analysis results?" So the answer...
...
Mar 14 2016
An unusual bug in Lucene.Net
Ilya Ivanov
Listening to stories about static analysis, some programmers say that they don't really need it, as their code is entirely covered by unit tests, and that's enough to catch all the bugs. Recently...
...
Mar 10 2016
A fresh eye on Oracle VM VirtualBox
Sviatoslav Razmyslov
Virtual machines are important tools in the arsenal of a software developer. Being an active user of VirtualBox, and checking various open source projects with the help of it, I was...
...
View more Pagination arrow previous
Showing: - of 1540