Integrating PVS-Studio into uVision Keil

by Amomum

Keil provides a weird feature – creating a project batch file. I still don't know the purpose of this feature. This batch file contains all the necessary information for PVS-Studio, and it's enabled with a single check mark! Unfortunately, this check mark also breaks the incremental build. That is, any compilation becomes a complete recompilation. It affects the build time, so, unfortunately, it's not an option for us.

Call for papers for conference C++ Russia

by C++ Russia

Feel free to share your ideas with us. We will help to prepare your performance.

Plus, as a speaker, you’ll get Full Pass, one ticket to all season’s conferences.

Call for papers is on up to the 13d September.

Test Driven C++

by Phil Nash

We know that testing is important, but writing tests is hard and takes time - and can be demotivating when you want to hack out features.

But what if we flipped the whole thing around? It turns out that by writing tests _first_ the dynamic changes in unexpected ways. Testing becomes easier. Adding features becomes easier. The dopamine hit you get from seeing something work becomes more frequent. Time lost to bugs and regressions virtually disappears. You start to get invited to bigger and better parties!

Ok, one of those statements is not guaranteed - but the rest are! If you've never tried TDD (perhaps you have heard of it but been skeptical), or maybe had a bad experience in the past, this talk will give you a sound intro to how it work, how you can get started, and what you can expect to achieve.

Shift-M/47: Bjarne Stroustrup on the future of programming

by Yegor Bugayenko

00:00 Introduction
00:58 How to make a language popular
06:24 Do we need committees to add new features to the language
13:05 Future of C++
14:54 NoCode
17:51 AI for optimizing of source code
23:28 Formal definition of language
28:05 Complexity of languages
41:18 Mistakes in C++
46:37 Future of programming languages
48:39 What was the purpose of creating C ++
56:59 Life goal

Visual Studio Code C++ July 2021 Update: Disassembly View, Macro Expansion and Windows ARM64 Debugging

by Julia Reid

The July 2021 update of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is here, bringing you brand new features— such as a Disassembly View while debugging, inline macro expansions, and debug support for Windows ARM64 architecture—along with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. To find out more about all the enhancements, check out our release notes on GitHub...

Upcoming C++ User Group Meetings in August 2021

by Jens Weller

The monthly overview of upcoming C++ User Group meetings. This time with offline, hybrid and online meetings.

In the first 3 weeks of August Meeting C++ online will host these events for you to get a first feeling on how a platform performs:

Performance of the Parallel STL Algorithms

by Rainer Grimm

I presented in my last post "Parallel Algorithms of the STL with the GCC Compiler" the necessary theory about the C++17 algorithm. Today, I make a performance test using the Microsoft compiler and the GCC compiler to answer the simple question: Does the execution policy pay off?

Using C++ Modules in MSVC from the Command Line Part 1

by Cameron DaCamara

In this three-part series we will explore how to build modules and header units from the command line as well as how to use/reference them.

The goal of this post is to serve as a brief tour of compiling and using primary module interfaces from the command line and the options we use...

From Algorithm to Generic, Parallel Code

by Dietmar Kuhl

This presentation starts with a parallel algorithm as it is described in books and turns it into a generic implementation. Multiple options for running the algorithm concurrently based on different technologies (OpenMP, Threading Building Blocks, C++ standard-only) are explored.

Using parallel algorithms seems like an obvious way to improve the performance of operations. However, to utilize more processsing power often requires additional work to be done and depending on available resources and the size of the problem the parallel version may actually take longer than a sequential version. Looking at the actual implementation for an algorithm should clarify some of the tradeoffs.

Showing how a parallel algorithm can be implemented should also demonstrate how such an algorithm can be done when there is no suitable implementation available from the [standard C++] library. As the implementation of a parallel algorithms isn't trivial it should also become clear that using a readily available implementation is much preferable.

Testing online platforms for Meeting C++ 2021

by Jens Weller

For this year, the conference of Meeting C++ is online only. I've made this decision last year, when it was clear that this is an option that is available. With predictions of a 4th Wave in Europe in Fall, it seems to be the right decision. Since 2020 Meeting C++ online gathered a community of folks interested in C++ and attending online events into a User Group. With one year of experience in hosting online events, its time to move forward and see which platform should host these events in the future.

5th August: Teaching C++ with Victor Ciura
12th August: Ivan Cukic - Members through a looking glass!
19th August: Peter Sommerlad - Beyond rule of zero