The number of bugs in our bug list has exceeded 15000. This is exactly the number of bugs found by the PVS-Studio team in various open-source projects. Most excitingly, our bug collection i…

PVS-Studio can hide repeated warnings. The analyzer allows you to set baseline, which makes it easy to implement static analysis in legacy projects. Should we provide these features for thi…

Like any other tool, POSIX signals have their own rules on how to use them wisely, securely, and safely. Programming language standards, man pages and the POSIX standard itself have described POSIX...

Nowadays system resources are widely available. Ordinary high-level application software developers have to follow minimum system requirements. So, don′t expect them to optimize the code to…

A long time ago, I performed technical interviews on a regular basis — I was recruiting candidates for the position of a programmer in a company. I had a simple, clear, and smart recruitmen…

A long time ago, I performed technical interviews on a regular basis — I was recruiting candidates for the position of a programmer in a company. I had a simple, clear, and smart recruitment plan (I...

Whichever C++ article you read, it provides serious information, requires thoughtful reading — preferably with a cup of coffee. And what if you want to have fun? That′s why I decided to write this...

In PVS-Studio 7.18, the compiler monitoring utility for Windows got new mechanism that completely eliminates missed compiler launches. In this article, we will remind you how our analyzer c…

An emulator is an application that enables a computer with one operating system to run programs designed for a completely different operating system. Today we talk about GPCS4 — the emulato…

C++ is a truly controversial language. Good ol′ C was created in 1972. C++ appeared in 1985 and had backward compatibility with C. Since then, C++ was pronounced dead many times: Java did it first...

Recently, Wolfire Games released Overgrowth's source code. We couldn't but check the game's quality with the help of PVS-Studio. Let's see where you can find the coolest action: in the game…

Recently, we have released a new PVS-Studio version — 7.19. In this note, we′ll tell you about new features in the analyzer, the enhanced documentation, as well as what to read and... what …

Stack Overflow is full of questions from people learning to write code. Here′s a tip: you can get answers to most of these questions if you run a static code analyzer against your code. Tha…

PVS-Studio developers made an entertaining quiz for you. Try to quickly find a bug in a code fragment. If you spot an error - click on it.

Orleans is a cross-platform framework for creating scalable cloud applications. This software is developed by Microsoft, and PVS-Studio often checks its projects. Let′s see how many suspicious places...

Today I′ll talk some more about questions posted on Stack Overflow — in particular, about another discussion started by someone learning the C++ language. I′d like to note that, if you are …

Starting from PVS-Studio 7.14, the C and C++ analyzer has been supporting intermodular analysis. In this two-part article, we′ll describe how similar mechanisms are arranged in compilers an…

In mid-May this year we released an updated version of our quiz for C++ developers. It′s been 2 months already — keep on reading to learn more about the results!

In part 1 we discussed the basics of C and C++ projects compiling. We also talked over linking and optimizations. In part 2 we are going to delve deeper into intermodular analysis and discu…

Developers around the world use their favorite IDEs every day to create software. Today we are checking one of them and looking at the most interesting errors found.