I regularly check various open-source projects to demonstrate the abilities of the PVS-Studio static code analyzer (C, C++, C#). Now it is time for the GCC compiler to get checked.

Bugs found in GCC with the help of PVS-Studio

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

This part could also be called "Example number one thousand, why macros are bad". I really don't like macros and always urge people to avoid using them if possible. Macros make it difficult to read the code, provoke errors, and make the work of static analyzers harder. As best I can tell, from a brief interaction with the GCC code, the authors are big fans of macros. I was really tired looking at what the macros are expanded to, and perhaps missed quite a number of interesting errors. I should confess that I was lazy at times. But still, I will demonstrate a couple of errors, connected with macros.