PVS-Studio 7.20: Unreal Engine, SAST, SCA

By Andrey Karpov | Aug 18, 2022 01:40 AM | Tags: unreal engine 5 unreal engine ue5 scoped_lock sast pvsstudio

The bug related to Unreal Engine's inability to find PVS-Studio by the default path is finally fixed. Starting from Unreal Engine 5.0.3. you you can analyze projects without any workarounds. We've also enhanced the analysis of UE projects: you'll see more true warnings and fewer false ones.

PVS-Studio 7.20: Unreal Engine, SAST, SCA

by Sergey Vasiliev

From the article:

New diagnostics for C, C++:

• V1086. Call of the 'Foo' function will lead to buffer underflow.
• V1087. Upper bound of case range is less than its lower bound. This case may be unreachable.
• V1088. No objects are passed to the 'std::scoped_lock' constructor. No locking will be performed. This can cause concurrency issues.
• V1089. Waiting on condition variable without predicate. A thread can wait indefinitely or experience a spurious wake up.

New stable release of wxWidgets 3.2.0 is now available

By VZ | Aug 9, 2022 10:37 AM | Tags: None

After almost 9 years of development, the first release in the new stable version of wxWidgets.

GitHub Repository

by wxWidgets

About wxWidgets:

A free and open source C++ library for creating portable native GUI applications.

You can find more information on the project web site

HPX V1.8.1 released -- STE||AR Group

By Hartmut Kaiser | Aug 6, 2022 05:35 PM | Tags: None

The STE||AR Group has released V1.8.1 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for Concurrency and Parallelism.

HPX V1.8.1 Released

We have released HPX 1.8.1 that adds a number of small new features and fixes a handful of problems discovered since the last 1.8.0 release, in particular: a lot of work has been done to improve vectorization support for our parallel algorithms. HPX now supports using EVE – the Expressive Vector Engine as a vectorization backend. More work was done towards full compatibility with the sender/receiver proposal P2300. We have fixed all collective operations to properly avoid overlapping consecutive operations on the same communicator. We also fixed a dangling reference problem while serializing non-default constructible types. We have added support for static linking on Windows (using MSVC) and have added support for M1/MacOS based architectures. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.

If you have any questions, comments, or exploits to report you can reach us on IRC or Matrix (#ste||ar on libera.chat) or email us at hpx-users. We depend on your input!

You can download the release from our releases page or check out the 1.8.1 tag using git. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.

HPX is a general-purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale. It implements all of the related facilities as defined by the C++20 Standard. As of this writing, HPX provides the only widely available open-source implementation of the new C++17 and C++20 parallel algorithms, including a full set of parallel range-based algorithms. Additionally, HPX implements functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process, such as large parts of the features related parallelism and concurrency as specified by the upcoming C++23 Standard, the C++ Concurrency TS, Parallelism TS V2, data-parallel algorithms, executors, and many more. It also extends the existing C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case (e.g., compute clusters) and for heterogeneous systems (e.g., GPUs).

HPX seamlessly enables a new Asynchronous C++ Standard Programming Model that tends to improve the parallel efficiency of our applications and helps reducing complexities usually associated with parallelism and concurrency.

CLion 2022.2 Released--Anastasia Kazakova

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 29, 2022 09:14 AM | Tags: None

Time to update.

CLion 2022.2 Released

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

Today we’re announcing the CLion 2022.2 release! To update to the new version, you can use the Toolbox App or a snap package (on Ubuntu), download the installer from our website, or apply the patch update to upgrade from version 2022.1.

The CLion 2022.2 release improves CMake integration. The Quick Documentation popup has become a useful source of knowledge about your C++ and CMake code. Enhanced static and dynamic code analysis, better debugger integration, and performance improvements for remote and Docker toolchains help you develop more productively. Read on for more details and give CLion 2022.2 a try...

CWE Top 25 2022. Review of changes

By Andrey Karpov | Jul 20, 2022 10:43 AM | Tags: sast devsecops cwetop25 cwe25 cwe

The CWE Top 25 list reflects the most serious software security weaknesses. I invite you to read the updated top list to become aware of the changes happened over the past year.

CWE Top 25 2022. Review of changes

by Mikhail Gelvih

From the article:

Below is a table of correspondence between the CWE Top 25 2022 list and the PVS-Studio diagnostic rules, divided by programming languages. You can always check the most up-to-date table with CWE Top 25 coverage on our website.

vcpkg June 2022 Release is Now Available: Force Download vcpkg Dependencies...--Augustin Popa

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 15, 2022 10:55 AM | Tags: community

Are you using it?

vcpkg June 2022 Release is Now Available: Force Download vcpkg Dependencies, Documentation Changes, and More

by Augustin Popa

From the article:

The June 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This includes a hotfix that fixed a regression in the binary caching experience. This blog post summarizes changes from May 11th, 2022 to June 15th, 2022 for the microsoft/vcpkg and microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos...

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2--Chris Pulido

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 8, 2022 01:08 PM | Tags: community

Are you using it?

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2

by Chris Pulido

From the article:

In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and better security. Here is a list of improvements for you to review...

Visual Assist | Visual Studio Plug-in -- WholeTomato

By WholeTomato | Jul 4, 2022 11:44 AM | Tags: None

Visual Assist fills gaps in Visual Studio for C/C++ and C# Developers

Visual Assist Software

by WholeTomato

About the software:

The best coding software plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio is Visual Assist from Whole Tomato Software. The plug-key-in's features are syntax highlighting and intelligence. Additionally, it allows spell-checking in comments, enhances code suggestions, and adds refactoring commands.

It is a top-notch code inspection tool Now with a slew of other features that make Visual Studio a breeze to use.

These features are given below

1. Code Inspection Modernization
2. Fast Navigation
3. Refactoring
4. Code Correction
5. Unreal_Engine 4 Support
6. Code Assistance

Download Visual Assist Now!

CLion 2022.2 EAP3: CMakeCache Editor, Symbol Servers for Debug, Evaluation of...--Anastasia Kazakova

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 4, 2022 11:06 AM | Tags: community

Are you using it?

CLion 2022.2 EAP3: CMakeCache Editor, Symbol Servers for Debug, Evaluation of Constant Values in the Editor

by Anastasia Kazakova

From the article:

A new CLion 2022.2 EAP3, 222.2889.11, is available from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap package (if you are using Ubuntu). If you are on macOS, there is a separate build for Apple Silicon (M1 chip). Those who are already using EAP2 can apply a patch to update to EAP3...

PVS-Studio challenge: can you spot an error in C++ code?

By Andrey Karpov | Jun 29, 2022 12:16 PM | Tags: quiz pvs-studio code review bugs

PVS-Studio team made an entertaining quiz for you. Try to quickly find a bug in a code fragment. If you spot an error - click on it.

Challenge: can you spot an error in C++ code?

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

You'll see ten code fragments. If you manage to find an error in under 1 minute, you score one point. The 1-minute limit is made on purpose. Otherwise you'll definitely find all errors — code fragments are short. Anyway, treat this quiz as a game, and not as a real test of your programming skills