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

PVS-Studio 7.19: C++ analyzer now works better with QNX compilers and Unreal Engine 5

By Andrey Karpov | Jun 24, 2022 02:06 AM | Tags: unreal engine 5 ue5 sast qnx pvs-studio

Recently, we have released a new PVS-Studio version — 7.19. In this note, we'll tell you about new features in the analyzer, the enhanced documentation, as well as what to read and... what to play.

PVS-Studio 7.19: what's new?

by Sergey Vasiliev

From the article:

Now, you can use PVS-Studio to analyze projects on Unreal Engine 5. For the most part, projects on UE 5 are analyzed in the same way as projects on UE 4. The difference is described in the documentation.

Introducing Scapix - automatic C++ bindings generator -- Boris Rasin

By Boris Rasin | Jun 9, 2022 01:30 PM | Tags: None

Using C++ with other languages.

Scapix Language Bridge - seamless integration of C++ with other languages

by Boris Rasin

From the article:

Bindings automatically generated directly from C++ headers during build - no need to manually maintain separate IDL definitions or manual bindings. Make a change in your C++ code, press build, then call your new code from Java, Objective C, Swift, Python, JavaScript or C#. Often this would be done in the same IDE, allowing continuous seamless cross-language development.

vcpkg May 2022 Release: artifacts using JSON, COS and SPDX support, and more--Augustin Popa

By Adrien Hamelin | May 30, 2022 02:31 PM | Tags: None

Are you using it?

vcpkg May 2022 Release: artifacts using JSON, COS and SPDX support, and more

by Augustin Popa

From the article:

The May 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from March 31st, 2022 to May 10th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos...

HPX V1.8.0 released -- STE||AR Group

By Hartmut Kaiser | May 25, 2022 07:59 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing concurrency c++23 c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11

The STE||AR Group has released V1.8.0 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for Concurrency and Parallelism.

HPX V1.8.0 Released

We have released HPX 1.8.0 -- a major update to our C++ Standard Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. The HPX parallel algorithms now have been fully adapted to C++20, all existing facilities have been adjusted to conform to this version of the Standard as well. We now can proudly announce full conformance to the C++20 concurrency and parallelism facilities. HPX supports all of the algorithms as specified by C++20. On top of that we support parallel versions of all range-based algorithms and have added support for explicit vectorization to more of our algorithms (using std::experimental::simd). Much work has been done towards implementing P2300 (std::execution) and the underlying senders/receivers facilities. Last but not least, we have finished the refactoring of the whole library into a rather large set of non-cyclically depending components. Finally, the new release comes with a brand new documentation interface!

You can download the release from our releases page or check out the 1.8.0 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.