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’.
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PVS-Studio: 25 Suspicious Code Fragments in CoreCLR
The Microsoft Corporation has recently published, for free, access the source code of the CoreCLR engine, which is a key component of .NET Core. We couldn’t help but pay attention to this event. The wider a project’s audience is, the worse defects found in the code will seem, won’t they? Despite Microsoft themselves being the authors of the product, there are still some issues to examine and think over in their code – just like in any other large project.
ChakraCore: analysis of JavaScript-engine for Microsoft Edge
On the JSConf US conference in December 2015 the developers announced that they were planning to make open the source code of Chakra key components, a JavaScript-engine, operating in Microsoft Edge. Recently the ChackraCore source code became available under the MIT license in the corresponding repository on GitHub. In this article you will find interesting code fragments that were detected with the help of PVS-Studio code analyzer.
Checking Qt 5 Framework
Static code analysis tools can help developers eliminate numbers of bugs as early as at the coding stage. With their help you can, for example, quickly catch and fix any typos. Well, some programmers are sincerely sure they never make typos and silly mistakes. But they are wrong; everyone makes mistakes. This article is a good evidence of that. Typos can be found even in high-quality and well tested projects such as Qt.
Override and final specifiers should become your new friends
The fragment is taken from the MFC library. The error is detected by the following diagnostic: V301 Unexpected function overloading behavior. See first argument of function ‘WinHelpW’ in derived class ‘CFrameWndEx’ and base class ‘CWnd’.
How Not To Code 