PVS-Studio as SAST solution

by Andrey Karpov

Until recently, in our articles we have positioned PVS-Studio as a tool for detecting errors in code. While we almost never regarded PVS-Studio in a security context. We will try to remedy this situation and take a look at the tool in terms of testing of security applications and DevSecOps practices.

For the convenience of specialists who will use PVS-Studio as a SAST tool, the analyzer provides mappings for its warnings to Common Weakness Enumeration, SEI CERT Coding Standards, and also supports MISRA standard (currently in development).

Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio

by Marian Luparu

In addition to previously supported callstack filtering, the Visual Studio debugger now also supports stepping over non-user-code...

Zapcc compiler open source now available

by Ceemple

Zapcc is a newer C++ compiler that goes for

• Faster Builds: Significant compilation speedups for heavy templated C++ headers such as ScyllaDB, Webkit, LLVM
• Clang/LLVM Based: Zapcc is based on clang and frequently updated from the latest svn
• Full Linux Support: Zapcc currently supports Linux x64, Windows x64 support with mingw-w64 is experimental 
• Drop-in Replacement: Zapcc is a drop-in replacement for clang and gcc, and supports all build system

PVS-Studio 6.24 released

by Andrey Karpov

Support for Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio, ARM compiler was added under Windows\Linux. 8 new diagnostics were introduced to detect errors in C and C++ code. In addition to the development of new diagnostics, we continue improving Data-Flow analysis that enables old diagnostics find more bugs. Thanks to these improvements, the analyzer finds more interesting errors, like the one we described in the article "February 31". Download and try PVS-Studio.

The first 5 companies have joined the employer listing!

by Jens Weller

Happy to report that now 5 companies are listed in the employer listing in the Meeting C++ job section!

These are:

Interesting Book: The Modern C++ Challenge

by Scott Meyers

I recently became aware of a nifty new book about C++, The Modern C++ Challenge. Today I saw that the ebook is available for $10, which strikes me as quite the bargain...

IO2D demo: Maps

by Michael Kazakov

This blog post describes another IO2D demo I wrote as a showcase of the library’s capabilities. The demo is a simple yet working GIS renderer. The OpenStreetMap service is used as a raw data provider, allowing for the visualization of any reasonably sized rectangular region. The demo supports querying OSM servers directly or loading existing data files. The entire source code of the sample is less than 800 lines of code, of which 250 lines deal with the rendering itself and another 360 lines handle the data model.

ReSharper C++ 2018.1 highlights

by Igor Akhmetov

This release comes with two new important features. First, Debug Step Filters lets you avoid stepping into specific functions during debugging. Second, Includes Analyzer helps investigate the dependencies between header files that affect build times.

C++ Annotated: January – May 2018

by Anastasia Kazakova

What's coming in C++20, ACCU, C++ Russia and C++Now trip reports and talk recordings, Simon Brand's C++ tips collection, a bug in GCC, const position (east and west battle), deprecated std::iterator, new releases.

Announcing: MSVC Conforms to the C++ Standard

by Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat

Achieving conformance with the C++ Standards has been a long road for the Visual C++ team. If you’ve seen us at any conferences lately, you’ve probably seen the MSVC Conformance slide..