While telling programmers about 64-bit issues they may encounter when porting their programs, I often hear reproaches: "Yes, surely - such is your Windows... How good it is that Linux has had...
A developer who is porting his Windows-application to the 64-bit platform sent a letter to our support service with a question about using floating-point calculations. By his permission we...
I was convinced one more time that programmers write programs absolutely carelessly, so that their programs work not because of their skill but due to chance and care of Microsoft or Intel...
This article is the most complete collection of examples of 64-bit errors in the C and C++ languages. The article is intended for Windows-application developers who use Visual C++, however, it...
In forums, people often say that 64-bit versions of programs consume a larger amount of memory and stack. Saying so, they usually argue that the sizes of data have become twice larger. But...
The article discusses the new capabilities of C++ language described in the standard C++0x and supported in Visual Studio 2010. By the example of PVS-Studio we will see how the changes in...
Programmers see in C++0x standard an opportunity to use lambda-functions and other entities I do not quite understand :). But personally, I see convenient means in it that allow us to get rid of...
While maintaining the analyzer Viva64 (included into PVS-Studio) we often comment upon the switch /Wp64 of Microsoft Visual C++. If you are out of the swim, let me remind you that this...
We continue the cycle of posts about 64-bit errors detected in real applications. Time passes, demands for memory being consumed grow more and more, and now the time has come when somebody decides...
In the previous blog-post I promised to tell you why it is difficult to demonstrate 64-bit errors by simple examples. We spoke about operator[] and I told that in simple cases even incorrect...