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...
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...
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...
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...
About a year ago we checked the Linux core. It was one of the most discussed articles at that time. We also got quite a number of requests to check FreeBSD, so finally we decided to take the time...
Some people think that undefined behavior is caused only by gross errors (accessing outside the bounds of the array, for instance) or inadequate constructions (i = i++ + ++i, for example). That's...
Microsoft have given open access to the source code of a tool kit that is used in the company to speed up the development of artificial intelligence: Computational Network Toolkit is now available...
On the JSConf US conference in December 2015 the developers announced that they were planning to make open the source code of Chakra key components, a JavaScript-engine, operating in Microsoft...
A few days ago, the ObjectArts company made their source code and the Dolphin Smalltalk IDE open, making it available under the MIT license! Of course, I couldn't miss the chance to try...
After checking hundreds of C/C++ projects of various types, I can claim: memset() is the most inefficient and dangerous function. Most errors that I see in projects are related to the usage of...
