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PVS-Studio, Blender: Series of Notes on Advantages of Regular Static Analysis of Code

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PVS-Studio and Blender


In our articles, we regularly repeat an important idea: a static analyzer should be used regularly. This helps detect and cheaply fix many errors at the earliest stage. It looks nice in theory. As we know, actions still speak louder than words. Let's look at some recent bugs in new code of the Blender project.

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HDB++ TANGO Archiving System

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What is HDB++?


This is a TANGO archiving system, allows you to save data received from devices in the TANGO system.


Working with Linux will be described here (TangoBox 9.3 on base Ubuntu 18.04), this is a ready-made system where everything is configured.


What is the article about?


  • System architecture.
  • How to set up archiving.

It took me ~ 2 weeks to understand the architecture and write my own scripts for python for this case.


What is it for?


Allows you to store the history of the readings of your equipment.


  • You don't need to think about how to store data in the database.
  • You just need to specify which attributes to archive from which equipment.
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Free Heroes of Might and Magic II: Open-Source Project that You Want to Be Part of

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Recently we found out that the new version of the fheroes2 project was released. In our company there are many fans of Heroes of Might and Magic game series. So, we couldn't pass it up and checked the project by PVS-Studio.

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Why PVS-Studio Uses Data Flow Analysis: Based on Gripping Error in Open Asset Import Library

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Why PVS-Studio Uses Data Flow Analysis
An essential part of any modern static code analyzer is data flow analysis. However, from an outside perspective, the use of data flow analysis and its benefit is unclear. Some people still consider static analysis a tool searching for something in code according to a certain pattern. Thus, we occasionally write blog posts to show how this or that technology, used in the PVS-Studio analyzer, helps to identify another interesting error. Today, we have such an article about the bug found in the Base64, one of the encoding standard implementations of binary data.

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Just for Fun: PVS-Studio Team Came Up With Monitoring Quality of Some Open Source Projects

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Static code analysis is a crucial component of all modern projects. Its proper application is even more important. We decided to set up a regular check of some open source projects to see the effect of the analyzer's frequent running. We use the PVS-Studio analyzer to check projects. As for viewing the outcome, the choice fell on SonarQube. As a result, our subscribers will learn about new interesting bugs in the newly written code. We hope you'll have fun.

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COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variable

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There is an open project COVID-19 CovidSim Model, written in C++. There is also a PVS-Studio static code analyzer that detects errors very well. One day they met. Embrace the fragility of mathematical modeling algorithms and why you need to make every effort to enhance the code quality.

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Finding Typos in the GTK 4 Project by PVS-Studio

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You may have already read a recent article about the first PVS-Studio run and filtration of warnings. We used the GTK 4 project as an example. It's about time we worked with the received report in more detail. Our regular readers may have already guessed that this article will be a description of errors found in the code.

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How PVS-Studio Checked ELKI in January

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If you feel like the New Year just came, and you missed the first half of January, then all this time you've been busy looking for tricky bugs in the code you maintain. It also means that our article is what you need. PVS-Studio has checked the ELKI open source project to show you errors that may occur in the code, how cunningly they can hide there, and how you can deal with them.


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Modern Portable Voice Activity Detector Released

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Currently, there are hardly any high quality / modern / free / public voice activity detectors except for WebRTC Voice Activity Detector (link). WebRTC though starts to show its age and it suffers from many false positives.


Also in some cases it is crucial to be able to anonymize large-scale spoken corpora (i.e. remove personal data). Typically personal data is considered to be private / sensitive if it contains (i) a name (ii) some private ID. Name recognition is a highly subjective matter and it depends on locale and business case, but Voice Activity and Number Detection are quite general tasks.


Key features:


  • Modern, portable;
  • Low memory footprint;
  • Superior metrics to WebRTC;
  • Trained on huge spoken corpora and noise / sound libraries;
  • Slower than WebRTC, but fast enough for IOT / edge / mobile applications;
  • Unlike WebRTC (which mostly tells silence from voice), our VAD can tell voice from noise / music / silence;
  • PyTorch (JIT) and ONNX checkpoints;

Typical use cases:


  • Spoken corpora anonymization;
  • Can be used together with WebRTC;
  • Voice activity detection for IOT / edge / mobile use cases;
  • Data cleaning and preparation, number and voice detection in general;
  • PyTorch and ONNX can be used with a wide variety of deployment options and backends in mind;
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ONLYOFFICE Community Server: how bugs contribute to the emergence of security problems

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Server-side network applications rarely get the chance to join the ranks of our reviews of errors found in open source software. This is probably due to their popularity. After all, we try to pay attention to the projects that readers themselves offer us. At the same time, servers often perform very important functions, but their performance and benefits remain invisible to most users. So, by chance, the code of ONLYOFFICE Community Server was checked. It turned out to be a very fun review.
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Talking About Errors in the QuantConnect Lean Code

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This article discusses errors found using a static analyzer in an open source project. There are some simple things that can help you avoid them. For example, the usage of language syntactic constructs starting from C# 8.0. We hope it will be exciting. Have fun reading!
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Analyzing the Code Quality of Microsoft's Open XML SDK

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My first encounter with Open XML SDK took place when I was looking for a library that I could use to create some accounting documents in Word. After more than 7 years of working with Word API, I wanted to try something new and easier-to-use. That's how I learned that Microsoft offered an alternative solution. As tradition has it, before our team adopts any program or library, we check them with the PVS-Studio analyzer.
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Checking Clang 11 with PVS-Studio

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PVS-Studio: I'm still worthy

Every now and then, we have to write articles about how we've checked another fresh version of some compiler. That's not really much fun. However, as practice shows, if we stop doing that for a while, folks start doubting whether PVS-Studio is worth its title of a good catcher of bugs and vulnerabilities. What if the new compiler can do that too? Sure, compilers evolve, but so does PVS-Studio – and it proves, again and again, its ability to catch bugs even in high-quality projects such as compilers.
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Checking a Header-Only C++ Library Collection (awesome-hpp)

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Somehow, we've happened to check most of the libraries making up a collection called "Awesome hpp". These are small header-only projects in C++. Hopefully, the information about the bugs we've found will help make the libraries better. We'll also be happy to see the developers use PVS-Studio on a regular basis thanks to the free-license option we provide.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent or How to Forget to Fix Copy Paste

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Just before the release of the "Amnesia: Rebirth" game, the vendor "Fractional Games" opened the source code of the legendary "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" and its sequel "Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs". Why not use the static analysis tool to see what dreadful mistakes are hidden in the inside of these cult horror games?
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JavaCC 21 Parser Generator

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JavaCC 21 is a continuation of work on the venerable JavaCC parser generator, originally developed at Sun Microsystems in the 1990’s and released under a liberal open source license in 2003. It is currently the most advanced version of JavaCC. It has many feature enhancements (with more to come soon) and also generates much more modern, readable Java code. Also, certain key bugs have finally been fixed. (N.B. The “21” in JavaCC 21 is not a version number. It is simply part of the project name and means that this is a JavaCC for the 21st century!)

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Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project

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PVS-Studio and Awesome header-only C++ libraries

Modern applications are built from third-party libraries like a wall from bricks. Their usage is the only option to complete the project in a reasonable time, spending a sensible budget, so it's a usual practice. However, taking all the bricks indiscriminately may not be such a good idea. If there are several options, it is useful to take time to analyze open libraries in order to choose the best one.
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