The Vangers: One for the Road video game just recently turned 20. To celebrate this event, we decided to check the source code of the project and make a review of interesting bugs found. This...
A pointer references a location in memory and dereferencing a pointer refers to the lookup of the value of the memory location the pointer references. The value of a pointer is a memory address...
My name is Victoria and I have recently joined the PVS-Studio team as a C++ developer. One of the ways to get acquainted with the analyzer and its diagnostics is to check a project and sort...
Video games are among the most popular software products. Now a new game engine, Amazon Lumberyard, has joined this huge industry. The project is currently in the beta phase and still has time to...
For a start, it is worth to remember what is vulnerability, and why one shouldn't trust data received from outside. The vulnerabilities are simple bugs that will make you famous all over...
If you are a software developer working in the video game industry and wondering what else you could do to improve the quality of your product or make the development process easier and you don't...
A technology of containerization is actively used for building and testing the software. With the emergence of PVS-Studio for Linux, the ability of adding the static analysis to other methods...
A new version of the PVS-Studio analyzer 6.23 is working under macOS, which allows you to check the projects written in C and C++. Our team decided to perform a XNU Kernel check to coincide it...
We're almost three months into 2018, which means the time has come (albeit with some delay) to make a top-10 list of bugs found by the PVS-Studio analyzer in C++ projects over the last year. Here...
