Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Belfast, November 2019--Botond Ballo

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 18, 2019 12:48 PM | Tags: experimental community

Another report!

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Belfast, November 2019

by Botond Ballo

From the article:

Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee (also known as WG21) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was the third and last committee meeting in 2019; you can find my reports on preceding meetings here (July 2019, Cologne) and here (February 2019, Kona), and previous ones linked from those. These reports, particularly the Cologne one, provide useful context for this post...

5 Ways Using Braces Can Make Your C++ Code More Expressive--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 18, 2019 12:42 PM | Tags: c++11 basics

The power of the brace.

5 Ways Using Braces Can Make Your C++ Code More Expressive

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

A lot of languages use braces to structure code. But in C++, braces are much more than mortar for holding blocks of code together. In C++, braces have meaning.

Or more exactly, braces have several meanings. Here are 5 simple ways you can benefit from them to make your code more expressive...

Trip Report: Freestanding Errors in Belfast--Ben Craig

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 13, 2019 11:36 AM | Tags: experimental community

Another one!

Trip Report: Freestanding Errors in Belfast

by Ben Craig

From the article:

The C++ standards committee met in Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) between Nov 4 and Nov 8. This was my fifth committee meeting, third evening session, and my first paper accepted into the standard. Through clever manipulation of the process, I was also able to fix 1.5% of all the national body comments SINGLE HANDEDLY (with the help of a coauthor, several reviewers, the entirety of LEWG and LWG, and a few national bodies)...

C++20: The Library--Rainer Grimm

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 13, 2019 11:31 AM | Tags: experimental

The list continues.

C++20: The Library

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

My last post "C++20: The Core Language" presented the new features of the C++20 core language. Today, I continue my journey with an overview of the C++20 library...

WG21 in my own backyard: Belfast trip report--Guy Davidson

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 13, 2019 11:29 AM | Tags: experimental community

Getting closer to 20!

WG21 in my own backyard: Belfast trip report

by Guy Davidson

From the article:

November turned into a heavy travel month when I agreed to speak at both C++ Russia in St Petersburg and Meeting C++ in Berlin, either side of the Autumn WG21 committee in Belfast. I took what some considered to be “quite a risk” with St Petersburg: the date straddled the Brexit date, and I would be accompanied by my wife whom the organisers graciously agreed to pay to accompany me. She travels with an Irish passport, so the idea of both of us safely returning to the country immediately after a change to border law seemed potentially hazardous...

Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Belfast) -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Nov 9, 2019 05:57 AM | Tags: None

Just concluded today:

Trip Report: Autumn ISO C++ Standards Meeting (Belfast)

by Herb Sutter

From the article:

A few minutes ago, the ISO C++ committee completed its autumn meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, hosted with thanks by clearpool.io, Archer-Yates, Microsoft, C++ Alliance, MCS Group, Instil, and the Standard C++ Foundation. ...  this week we resolved 73% of the national body comments, and made good progress on most of the rest... This means we are in good shape to ship the final text of the C++20 standard at high quality and on time, at the end of the next meeting in February in Prague.

Why PE need Original First Thunk(OFT)? -- Milad Kahsari Alhadi

By Milad Kahsari Alhadi | Nov 6, 2019 11:42 AM | Tags: None

All you need to know:

Why PE need Original First Thunk(OFT)?

by Milad Kahsari Alhadi

From article:

Let me summarize a lot of things for you here. When you load a Library, for example, Milad.dll and then try to call a function from that like MPrint, dynamic loader of the windows operating system has to resolve the address of the MPrint function and then call it.

We don't need no stinking expression templates -- Andy G

By andyg | Nov 6, 2019 11:27 AM | Tags: c++20

AndyG shows us how Ranges and Coroutines make lazy expression evaluation easier in C++20.

We don't need no stinking expression templates

by Andy G

From the article:

In C++20, we finally get ranges (po896), which all but deprecates our need for expression templates.

Phantom type, partially applied template, and deduction guides to support dependency injection

By fj | Nov 6, 2019 11:22 AM | Tags: None

Hi-perf dependency injection revisited

Phantom lambda type, partially applied class template, and deduction guides to support dependency injection

by Krzysztof Ostrowski

From the article:

Hi-perf dependency injection with construction of an injected type out of the user-defined lambda expressions. Minimal overhead, great benefits.

C++20 span tutorial--Paul Silisteanu

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 5, 2019 11:04 AM | Tags: experimental

All you need to know.

C++20 span tutorial

by Paul Silisteanu

From the article:

According to the latest C++20 draft, a span is a non-owning view over a contiguous sequence of objects. In other words, a std::span is, in essence, a pointer, length pair that gives the user a view into a contiguous sequence of elements. The elements of a span can be, for example, stored in one of the standard library sequential containers (like std::array, std::vector), in a built-in C-style array or in a memory buffer...