PVS-Studio is now available on macOS: 64 weaknesses in the Apple's XNU Kernel
A new version of PVS-Studio analyzer 6.23 is working under macOS, which allows you to check the projects written in C and C++. With the release of the analyzer version for macOS, PVS-Studio can now be boldly called a cross-platform static code analyzer for C and C++ code.
How to start demonstrating the abilities of PVS-Studio for macOS? No doubts, the check of the kernel of this system is the best variant! Although the XNU Kernel is relatively small, it's a challenge to study the analyzer warnings alone, which takes much time. False positives make the check more complicated, since you haven't performed the preliminary analyzer configuration.
In total, we noted 64 errors and decided to stop at this beautiful number. We have grouped the defects according to Common Weakness Enumeration, this classification is quite well-known and it will be easier to understand what errors are a question of this or that chapter. For more details check our article https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0566/.
Now you are able to detect errors and potential vulnerabilities in C, and C++. We invite everyone to try out our analyzer on your projects and to assess its abilities.
