BUG OF THE MONTH | Dereferencing of the null pointer
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This story goes back to 2015, when Haiku OS and PVS-Studio static analyzer developers decided to join forces and improve this OS code quality. At first it was more like an experiment, as there was no Linux analyzer at that time and the team had to work only with the compiled executable analyzer file. The entire infrastructure for parsing compiler parameters, running preprocessor, analysis paralleling and so on was taken from the Compiler Monitoring UI utility in C#, which was ported in parts to the Mono platform in order to be run in Linux.
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BUG OF THE MONTH | A guy sent an email to our support saying that the analyzer was producing four false positives at once on one line of his code.
