The FindBugs Blog

I spent some time improving the detector for thread unsafe lazy initialization. The following code is from JDK1.6.0, sun.security.provider.c...

OK, yeah, I got swamped and haven't touched the blog in months. I'll try to update it more regularly. Bill

OK, since I've pointed out a number of times that open source code contains a number of embarrassing bugs, I want to just emphasize that...

I found the following code in a recent snapshot of netbeans. If anyone has a clue as to what the developer was thinking, let me know. The co...

I would up getting completely swamped with some other stuff at work and not updating the findbugs blog for some time. I hope to be posting m...

Sometimes, a bug report will point you to some code that just elicits a WTF response. FindBugs generated a null pointer warning in javax.sql...

I was doing some historical analysis of FindBugs warnings in the JDK, and found that there is one null pointer warning that FindBugs generat...

Consider the following code (from Eclipse 3.2, org.eclipse.jdk.internal.core.NamedMember): for (int i = 0; i String typeArgument = typeArg...

You'd think that Math.abs would return a non-negative integer. You'd be wrong. In fact, Math.abs(Integer.MIN_VALUE) = Integer.MIN_VA...

Welcome to the FindBugs blog. We're going to use this blog to post items of interest about FindBugs, static analysis tools, and other to...