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CppCast Episode 64: Modules with Gabriel Dos Reis

By robwirving | Jul 22, 2016 07:25 AM | Tags: None

Episode 64 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Gabriel Dos Reis, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft to discuss C++ Modules.

CppCast Episode 64: Modules with Gabriel Dos Reis

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Gabriel Dos Reis is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. He is also a researcher and a longtime member of the C++ community. His research interests include programming tools for dependable software. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Dos Reis was a recipient of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research in compilers for dependable computational mathematics and educational activities.

Parameter or Argument?--Malte Langkabel

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 21, 2016 02:04 PM | Tags: basics

Did you know the difference?

Parameter or Argument?

by Malte Langkabel

From the article:

I often hear people getting confused when talking about parameters and arguments. That confusion grows even stronger when one of them knows the difference but the other one doesn’t. So let’s shed some light on this issue and spread the knowledge! Programming involves talking to each other but that doesn’t have to be more painful than it already is wink

N4607: 2017-07-10-15 ISO WG21 C++ Standard Meeting in Toronto -- Michael Wong

By Blog Staff | Jul 21, 2016 09:31 AM | Tags: None

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: N4607

Date: 2016-07-18

2017-07-10-15 ISO WG21 C++ Standard Meeting in Toronto

by Michael Wong

Excerpt:

The 2017 summer meeting of WG21 is being hosted at the University of Toronto, in Canada on July 1015, 2017, Monday to Saturday (inclusive).

CLion 2016.2 released: Remote GDB debug, Doxygen, operators generation

By Anastasia Kazakova | Jul 20, 2016 04:21 PM | Tags: None

CLion 2016.2 released: Remote GDB debug, Doxygen, operators generation

by Anastasia Kazakova

Main highlights from the announcement:

This is our second release of 2016, building on the idea of releasing more often and bringing you the latest features faster. With many new fantastic tools, CLion can help you become a true C++ rockstar:
  • Inspect code more efficiently thanks to improved performance of debugger drivers, the remote GDB debug possibility and LLDB on Linux.
  • Keep your code well-documented with Doxygen support (and thus reduce maintainability costs). Get more out of Doxygen comments stub generation.
  • Save time on typing, with equality, relational and stream output operators generation, with many flexible options on board.
  • Rely on code formatting - use new LLDB and LLVM code styles.
  • Work with CMake project model more easily thanks to Rename and Safe delete refactoring support in CMake.

CppChat - Slashing on C++--Jon Kalb

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 20, 2016 02:16 PM | Tags: experimental

The first video of CppChat is here:

CppChat - Slashing on C++

by Jon Kalb

From the description:

A live conversation about the latest in the C++ world. This week we'll be talking about Oulu, C++17, CppCon, and the latest conversations on C++.

We'll be featuring Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, Michael Caisse, and Jon Kalb. Bryce will be overflowing about his trip to Oulu, Jon will be overflowing about CppCon, and Michael will keep us on track.

This is our first time so it is likely to be very rough. But you'll join us for the content, not the polish.

Zeroing Memory is Hard (VC++ 2015 arrays)--Bruce Dawson

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 20, 2016 02:08 PM | Tags: performance advanced

Here is a curious behaviour:

Zeroing Memory is Hard (VC++ 2015 arrays)

by Bruce Dawson

From the article:

Quick, what’s the difference between these two C/C++ definitions of initialized local variables?

char buffer[32] = { 0 };
char buffer[32] = {};

One difference is that the first is legal in C and C++, whereas the second is only legal in C++.

Okay, so let’s focus our attention on C++. What do these two definitions mean?

CppCon 2015 Integrating generators EDSL's for Spirit X3 (WIP)--Feliple Magno de Almeida

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 20, 2016 02:05 PM | Tags: boost advanced

Have you registered for CppCon 2016 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2015 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

Integrating generators EDSL's for Spirit X3 (WIP)

by Feliple Magno de Almeida

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Based on the presentation I made on C++Now 2015 for Developing EDSL's for Boost.Spirit V2, present the development of generators for Boost.Spirit X3 (next version of boost spirit) and how that can be used for higher abstraction EDSL's while, through template metaprogramming, create parsers and generators automatically from the same grammar, using CORBA format as an example, while dealing with endianness, alignment and asymmetric grammars. This work is based on the library mORBid (https://github.com/expertisesolutions...) and (https://github.com/expertisesolutions...).