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Review of contemporary C/C++ static code analyzers
In this article, we’ll try to assess the current situation concerning static analysis of C/C++ code. This study has a slightly philosophical character and in no way claims to be absolutely complete and objective. There also won’t be any discussions of which analyzer is better. Such comparisons are usually a pointless action: there will always be people who disagree with the chosen methodology or suspect the researcher in being biased. To do the research, I’ll try to take the list of popular contemporary analyzers of C/C++ code (for example, from Wikipedia) and understand, which tools don’t already fit there and if there is a need to add something there.
PVS-Studio 6.16 released
PVS-Studio is a static code analyzer that detects errors and potential vulnerabilities in the source code of programs written in C/C++/C#. Version 6.16 has obtained 11 new general analysis diagnostics.
The Ultimate List of Resources to Learn C and C++
The C programming language was originally developed for and implemented on the UNIX operating system by Dennis Ritchie. C, a quite simple language, is not tied to any particular hardware or system. This makes it easy for a user to write programs that will run without any changes on practically all machines.
Top 10 bugs in C++ open source projects, checked in 2016
While the world is discussing the 89th Ceremony of Oscar award and charts of actors and costumes, we’ve decided to write a review article about the IT-sphere. The article is going to cover the most interesting bugs, made in open source projects in 2016. This year was remarkable for our tool, as PVS-Studio has become available on Linux OS. The errors we present are hopefully, already fixed, but every reader can see how serious are the errors made by developers.
If programming languages were “Game of Thrones” characters
People compare programming languages with almost everything. Knowing about the upcoming arrival of the new “Game of Thrones” season, we decided to imagine how programming languages looked like, if they were characters of this serial.
Top 10 C# projects errors found in 2016
To measure the efficiency of our analyzer, and also to promote the methodology of static analysis, we regularly analyze open source projects for bugs and write articles about the results. 2016 was no exception. This year is especially important as it is the year of the “growth” of the C# analyzer. PVS-Studio has obtained a large number of new C# diagnostics, an improved virtual values mechanism (symbolic execution) and much more. Based on the results of our teamwork, I compiled a kind of chart of the most interesting bugs, found in various C# projects in 2016.
