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We continue checking Microsoft projects: analysis of PowerShell
It has become a “good tradition” for Microsoft to make their products open-source: CoreFX, .Net Compiler Platform (Roslyn), Code Contracts, MSBuild, and other projects. For us, the developers of PVS-Studio analyzer, it’s an opportunity to check well-known projects, tell people (including the project authors themselves) about the bugs we find, and additionally test our analyzer. Today we are going to talk about the errors found in another project by Microsoft, PowerShell.
Why software will never be bugless
The expectation of people with regard to software quality is profoundly unrealistic. It could be because they depend so much on software that anything less than perfect is ‘un-acceptable’.
Checking 7-Zip with PVS-Studio analyzer
One of the programs, which allows you to solve the problem of data compression, is a popular file archiver 7-Zip, which I often use myself. Our readers have long asked us to check the code of this application. Well, it’s time to look at its source code, and see what PVS-Studio is able to detect in this application.
