Meltdown And Spectre--Matt Godbolt
If you missed it:
Meltdown And Spectre
by Matt Godbolt
From the article:
A presentation on my understanding of the Meltdown and Spectre hardware exploits.
ACCU 2018 Schedule has been published -- ACCU conference committee
The schedule for the upcoming ACCU 2018 conference in Bristol, UK from 2018-04-11 to 2018-04-14 has been published.
ACCU 2018 Schedule
by ACCU conference committee
About the conference:
Again we have three C++ tracks this year!We will have keynotes by Gen Ashley, Hadi Hariri, Lisa Lippincott and Seb Rose.
Four full day tutorials take place the day before the conference, three with C++ content.
So don't forget to register.
CppCast Episode 136: foonathan/type_safe and more with Jonathan Müller
Episode 136 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Müller to talk about his experience at University and some of his recent projects.
CppCast Episode 136: foonathan/type_safe and more with Jonathan Müller
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Jonathan is a CS student passionate about C++. In his spare time he writes libraries like foonathan/memory which provides memory allocator implementations. He is also working on standardese which is a documentation generator specifically designed for C++. Jonathan tweets at @foonathan and blogs about various C++ and library development related topics at foonathan.net.
Fantastic Algorithms and Where To Find Them - Nicholas Ormrod
A great introduction to some lesser known algorithms:
Fantastic Algorithms and Where To Find Them
by Nicholas Ormrod
N4720: Working Draft, Extensions to C++ for Modules -- Gabriel Dos Reis
A new WG21 paper is available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.
Document number: N4720
Date: 2018-01-29
Working Draft, Extensions to C++ for Modules
by Gabriel Dos Reis
Excerpt:
As approved between meetings as a current working draft base for further proposal discussion in Jacksonville.
Why it is important to check what the malloc function returned
Unfortunately, many programmers are careless about checking of pointers, and sometimes they deliberately do not check whether to memory was allocated or not.
Why it is important to check what the malloc function returned
by Andrey Karpov
From the article:
There are 4 reasons at once, each of them is enough to prove that it is so necessary to write a check after you call the malloc function. If someone from your team doesn't write the checks, make him read this article.
- Null pointer dereference is undefined behavior
- Null pointer dereference is a vulnerability
- Where are guarantees that dereferencing of exactly a null pointer will occur?
- Where are the guarantees that memset fills the memory in a direct order?
CppDepend v2018.1 Released - CERT/HICPP standard Checks, C++ Core guidelines support and much more.
We are happy to inform you that CppDepend v2018.1 has been released and is now available for download!
More Information about CppDepend v2018.1 new features!
by CoderGears
About the release:
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About the release
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- CERT (SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard ) standard checks
- HICPP (High Integrity C++) standard checks
- More rules to check your modern C++ codebase(C++11,C++14,C++17): More than 20 modernization detections
- Clang-tidy tool embedded for more issues detection
- Analysis of the CMake format specification: CppDepend analyzes now out of the box the CMake Compilation Database Format Specification.
- C++ Core Guidelines support
- New rules related to the performance and the readability issues
Reader-Writer Lock versus Mutex - Jeffrey Mendelsohn
A talk on understanding when a reader-writer lock beats a mutex, and when not.
Reader-Writer Lock versus Mutex
by Jeffrey Mendelsohn
The Most Vexing Parse: How to Spot It and Fix It Quickly--Jonathan Boccara
Did you have that problem?
The Most Vexing Parse: How to Spot It and Fix It Quickly
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
Everyone has their little defaults. You know, that little something that they do from time to time and that gets on your nerves, even though they’re otherwise nice people?
For C++, one of these little annoyances is the most vexing parse, well, as its name suggests...
Help the compiler warn you
And make less mistakes.
Help the compiler warn you
by Andrzej Krzemieński
From the article:
Compiler warnings are a very useful tool for detecting bugs in your program. Because you can enable them selectively, and because you can choose to turn them into hard errors on your compiler, you can in fact build a dialect, which is a safer subset of C++...