Tag: bug

Yet another ATL bug

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Roman

Another weird bug from Visual C++ .NET/ATL internals (Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1). IDispatch implementation (IModuleCommunicationTcp on the screenshot) supplied by Visual C++ compiler that converts “by DISPID” IDispatch::Invoke call into virtual method call (IModuleCommunicationTcp::get_HttpHost) does not initialize local BSTR variable i1 on stack. In case of method failure (in which case there…

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Zero-Defect Software Development

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Roman

When it comes to software bugs it is useful to know the gradient how to avoid and how to fix. What I recently found is an article about the accumulated experience on the topic: Zero-Defect Software Development (ZDSD) by Steve Pavlina [devnewz.com, securitypronews.com] ZDSD in Russian NASA Software Safety Standard NASA-STD-8719.13B