Today let's recall the oldie but goodie article "The Last Line Effect" written more than 5 years ago. Time passes, but nothing changes. There is nothing dreadful in it. Copy-Paste is still cruel and merciless. However, over the years, many new readers have joined our blog who may not be familiar with that article. So now there will be a moment of memories and a few additions.
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If you're reading this text, you've either thought that something was wrong with the headline or you've seen the name of a familiar computer game. VVVVVV is an indie platformer game that has stolen the hearts of many players by its pleasant external simplicity and no less pleasant internal complexity. A few days ago, VVVVVV turned 10 years, and the author of the game - Terry Cavanagh - celebrated this holiday by publishing its source code. What mind-boggling things is it hiding? Read the answer in this article.
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Machine learning has firmly entrenched in a variety of human fields, from speech recognition to medical diagnosing. The popularity of this approach is so great that people try to use it wherever they can. Some attempts to replace classical approaches with neural networks turn up unsuccessful. This time we'll consider machine learning in terms of creating effective static code analyzers for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities.
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Emby is quite a popular media server along with Plex and Kodi. In this article, we'll discuss the bugs found in its source code with the static analyzer PVS-Studio. The remark "Built with ReSharper" on the project's official website makes the analysis even more interesting.
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Hi, all of you collectors of exotic and plain bugs alike! We've got a rare specimen on our PVS-Studio test bench today – a game called "osu!", written in C#. As usual, we'll be looking for bugs, analyzing them, and playing.
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Perhaps every microcontroller software developer has heard about special coding standards to help improve the code security and portability. One of such standards is MISRA. In this article, we'll take a closer look at what this standard is, its concept and how to use it in your projects.
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We often write articles about software errors that we detect with our PVS-Studio static code analyzer. These errors are different: simple and complex, obvious and difficult to find, understandable and such, which require a few minutes of explanation. All these errors have something in common - the cost. We often have some disagreements with our readers about how high the price can be. Some say - what's the big deal that it's an error? We'll find it, we'll fix it. If we don't, we don't. Or a bit differently. Well the app will crash because of this error, no big deal. Let's restart and that's it.
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This article is a review of the bugs found in the Avalonia UI project with the static analyzer PVS-Studio. Avalonia UI is an open-source cross-platform XAML-based UI framework. This is one of the most technologically significant projects in the history of .NET as it enables developers to create cross-platform interfaces based on the WPF system. We hope the project's authors will find this article helpful in fixing some of the bugs, and convincing enough to make static analysis part of their development process.
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Hi to all fans of bugs! The New Year is coming soon, so it is time to take stock of the the outgoing year. By tradition, we're glad to present the top list of errors found by the PVS-Studio team in open C# projects in 2019. Ready? Then let's get going.
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Another year is drawing to an end, and it's a perfect time to make yourself a cup of coffee and reread the reviews of bugs collected across open-source projects over this year. This would take quite a while, of course, so we prepared this article to make it easier for you. Today we'll be recalling the most interesting dark spots that we came across in open-source C/C++ projects in 2019.
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