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When copy-paste goes wrong: Bugs in structurally isomorphic Go code

You might've done this many times: you found code in a project that seemed like a good fit for your task, copied it, replaced the variables or function calls with the ones you needed, and then got…

  • PVS-Studio 8.00 detects copy-paste bug in Go code.
  • Identifies if statements with identical checks but different variables.
  • Uses heuristic algorithm to compare simplified AST of code fragments.

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