Lots of interesting developer conferences take place in the world. It would be great to invent teleportation so you could attend every talk you're interested in, but let's make things easier. You...
There aren't many things left in modern C++ that don't fit the "Don't pay for what you don't use" paradigm. One of them is dynamic_cast. In this article, we'll find out what's wrong with it...
In this article, we are going to talk to Jason Turner, one of the CppCast founders. CppCast is the first podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. From 2015 to 2022 CppCast had...
In 2022, the PVS-Studio static analyzer for C and C++ turns 16 years old. If the analyzer were a human, it would have already finished high school! This project was started a long time ago, and...
Earlier we wrote about our quiz for C++ developers. Since the quiz launch, we have been carefully collecting your feedback. Some of the comments were related to the quiz errors, that we...
As the saying goes, the first step is always the hardest. That's exactly what happened in our case – after delaying it for so long, we have finally split the V512 diagnostic rule. You can read...
This note is for C++ beginner programmers who are wondering why everyone keeps telling them to use delete[] for arrays. But, instead of a clear explanation, senior developers just keep hiding...
Sometimes we publish articles about "a static analyzer that surpassed a C++ developer". And we carry on the tradition, but today we replace "developer" with...
When an analyzer or compiler issues a warning, sometimes it's hard to identify whether it's a false positive or a real error. Analyzers/compilers can be technically right, but the code also...
