Fast analysis of source code in C and C++
В. О. Савицкий, D. V. Sidorov · Programming and Computer Software · 2013
Static analysis is a popular tool for detecting the vulnerabilities that cannot be found by means of ordinary testing. The main problem in the development of static analyzers is their low speed. Methods for accelerating such analyzers are described, which include incremental analysis, lazy analysis, and header file caching. These methods make it possible to considerably accelerate the detection of defects and to integrate the static analysis tools in the development environment. As a result, defects in a file edited in the Visual Studio development environment can be detected in 0.5 s or faster, which means that they can be practically detected after each keystroke. Therefore, critical vulnerabilities can be detected and corrected at the stage of coding.