Some time ago, a vulnerability was revealed in OpenSSL, and I guess there's no programmer who hasn't been talking about it since then. I knew that PVS-Studio could not catch the bug leading to...
On March 19, 2014, Unreal Engine 4 was made public available. Subscription costs only $19 per month. The source codes have also been published at the github repository. Since that moment, we...
As a PVS-Studio's developer, I am often asked to implement various new diagnostics in our tool. Many of these requests are based on users' experience of working with dynamic code analyzers...
I know I promised not to touch upon the topic of 3DO console emulators anymore - well, sorry for breaking that promise. You see, I've recently had an opportunity to try such an exotic thing as...
Our readers asked us many times to check the nginx project. We already did it about a year ago and found nothing of interest. We have rechecked this project recently and again haven't found...
The Microsoft company has recently made a present to all programmers eager to dig into some interesting stuff: they revealed the source codes of MS-DOS v 1.1, v 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a...
I sometimes feel quite embarrassed when examining bugs in software projects. Many of these bugs inhabit the code for many years, and you just can't help wondering how the program still manages to...
This time it was the microcosm that brought us a few interesting bugs. We have checked the open-source project μManager with our analyzer PVS-Studio. This project is a software package for...
Andrey Karpov, Evgenii Ryzhkov, Paul Eremeev, Sviatoslav Razmyslov
We have carried out a thorough comparison of four analyzers for C/C++ code: CppCat, Cppcheck, PVS-Studio and Visual Studio's built-in analyzer. It is a serious, large investigation that we had...
