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...
We decided to write several small posts on how C/C++ programmers play with fire without knowing it. The first post will be devoted to an attempt to explicitly call a...
A great deal of compilation errors occurring when trying to recompile a 32-bit Windows application for 64-bit systems is related to inccorect function arguments. You may often see that in user...
When porting 32-bit code on a 64-bit system, Visual C++ compiler may generate a lot of warnings C4267 for the code where the result of the function std::string::find() is saved into a variable of...
The question if these types are equivalent and which of them and when should be used is discussed very much. But in practice you may consider them equivalent and use them as you...
While porting code from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit one, you may want to make the types size_t/ptrdiff_t 32-bit again to reduce the number of errors and warnings generated by the compiler. This...