CMakeToVisualStudio

by Zeb Mason

CMakeToVisualStudio parses CMakeLists.txt and CMakeCache.txt files and creates a traditional Visual Studio solution from templated XML:

• Might not build properly
• Might be sufficient to work with historical tooling for Visual Studio
• LGPL v2.1 set of libraries for reading CMake and Visual Studio projects and writing Visual C++ solutions

C++20: The Three-Way Comparison Operator

by Rainer Grimm

The three-way comparison operator <=> is often just called spaceship operator. The spaceship operator determines for two values A  and B whether A < B, A = B, or A > B. You can define the spaceship operator or the compiler can auto-generate it for you...

Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020

By Bjarne Stroustrup

This paper focuses on the major changes to the ISO C++ standard for the 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2020 revisions.
The standard library is about 3/4 of the C++20 standard, but this paper’s primary focus is on language features
and the programming techniques they support.

QStringView Diaries: Zero-Allocation String Splitting

by Marc Mutz

I am happy to announce that the first QStringTokenizer commits have landed in what will eventually become Qt 6.0.

QStringTokenizer splits strings, with zero memory allocations, universally, and safely.

While the version in Qt will be Qt 6-only, KDAB will release this tool for Qt 5 as part of its KDToolBox productivity suite.

The C and C++ Club

by Deepesh Menon P M

He has started a technical blog on C and C++, covering various philosophical aspects of these languages. Do visit and share your comments. 5 parts and 22 chapters are there on C, C++, design patterns and data structures. Please support me on this venture.

DeepEnds Release 3.0.1

DeepEnds 3.0.1 analyses code for coupling and cohesion and deletes redundant code. It is a Windows program that integrates with Visual Studio.

It is free to use until the end of August 2020.

C++20: Further Open Questions to Modules

by Rainer Grimm

So far, I have written in my last four posts the basics you should know about modules in C++20. Only a few questions to modules are still open. In this post, I address these open questions, such as templates in modules, the linkage of modules, and header units.

C++20: Structure Modules

By Rainer Grimm

When your module becomes bigger you want to divide its functionality into manageable components. C++20 modules offer two approaches: submodules and partitions. Let me discuss both approaches in this post.

A first look at COVID-19 and Meeting C++ 2020

by Jens Weller

With this news entry I want to give you an overview on the current situation with this years Meeting C++ conference regarding the ongoing pandemic.

In the early stages of the outbreak...

A Note of Caution about Using PVS-Studio on godbolt.org (Compiler Explorer)

by Andrey Karpov

This may be promising from the perspective of satisfying one's curiosity, writing articles, and so on. But there's a downside to it too: rather than using synthetic examples to explore or try out the tool, people may start relying on them to evaluate and compare it against other analyzers. And this is a very bad approach because the results will be unreliable and dependent on how the test examples are written.