2016-11 post-Issaquah mailing available

By Blog Staff | Dec 7, 2016 12:07 PM | Tags: None

The 2016-11 mailing of new standards papers is now available.

NOTE: A number of these papers have already been publicized on this blog. This is the complete list including ones not previously publicized.

C++ 17 Transformation…—phantom

By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 7, 2016 11:48 AM | Tags: experimental basics

The transformation is only a beginning towards catching up from C++98, but it does show why modern C++ features improve your code.

C++ 17 Transformation...

by phantom

From the article:

I'm basically really bad at working on my own projects, but with the recent release of Visual Studio 2017 RC and its improved C++17 support I figured it was time to crack on again...

To that end I've spent a bit of time today updating my own basic windowing library to use C++17 features. Some of the things have been simple transforms such as converting 'typedef' to 'using', others have been more OCD satisfying...

C++ Weekly Episode 40: Inheriting From Lambdas—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Dec 6, 2016 03:34 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17 c++11

Episode 40 of C++ Weekly.

Inheriting From Lambdas

by Jason Turner

About the show:

In this episode Jason discusses how (and why) you can inherit from a lambda function along with possible use cases.

Louis Dionne - Keynote Meeting C++ 2016 - C++ Metaprogramming: evolution and future direction

By Meeting C++ | Dec 5, 2016 08:23 AM | Tags: tmp metaprogramming intermediate experimental c++20 c++17 c++14 advanced

And the second keynote of Meeting C++ 2016 is on youtube:

C++ Metaprogramming: evolution and future direction

by Louis Dionne

Basic dependent typing—Krzysztof Ostrowski

By fj | Dec 5, 2016 04:09 AM | Tags: c++11 basics

Using fundamental types to do "simple things simple" fits very well in the most of cases.

Basic dependent typing

by Krzysztof Ostrowski

From the article:

If we assume that our application uses only a subset of values carried by given fundamental type, we are likely to get warning from the compiler. We shall take that warning seriously. How to inform type system about our assumptions? Example solutions follow.

Bjarne Stroustrup - Meeting C++ 2016 Keynote: What C++ is and what it will become

By Meeting C++ | Dec 5, 2016 02:51 AM | Tags: modules efficiency concepts c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11 basics advanced

Since yesterday this years opening keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup is on youtube:

What C++ is and what it will become

by Bjarne Stroustrup

CppCast Episode 80: Backtrace with Abel Mathew

By robwirving | Dec 2, 2016 09:49 AM | Tags: None

Episode 80 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Abel Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O, to talk about the debugging platform and its features for C++ developers.

CppCast Episode 80: Backtrace with Abel Mathew

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O. Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and a team lead on AppNexus’ Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.

C++ User Group Meetings in December

By Meeting C++ | Dec 1, 2016 09:17 AM | Tags: community

The monthly list of upcoming C++ User Group meetings:

C++ User Group meetings in December

by Jens Weller

From the article:

In total its already 30 groups which are meeting, also there are 10 new groups since the last posting:

Minsk, London, Melbourne, Karlsruhe, Ulm (Qt), San Diego, Belgrade, Luxembourg, Dallas FW, Plano.

How to use PVS-Studio for free

By Andrey Karpov | Nov 30, 2016 01:13 AM | Tags: static code analyzer pvs-studio free devtools devops

We want to help the software world improve the quality of their code, and get to know static analysis tools better. We are giving the opportunity to use PVS-Studio static code analyzer for free, for educational purposes, so that individual developers and enthusiastic teams could also fully use it.

How to use PVS-Studio for free

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

Some developers may say that they don't want to see two additional lines of code at the beginning of the file with the comments not related to the project itself. It is their right, and they may simply not use the tool. Or they can purchase a commercial license, and use it without any restrictions. We see these comments as a gratuity for the provided license, and also as an additional way to promote our product. I think it's a good, fair exchange.

The One-Definition Rule—Andrzej Krzemieński

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 29, 2016 02:25 PM | Tags: intermediate

Something we should be aware of:

The One-Definition Rule

by Andrzej Krzemieński

From the article:

We have been hit by the same bug twice already this year. It ends in a crash, and it took developers days to find it (in each case), even though it is reproducible on each run of unit tests. The code, after significant simplifications, looks like this:

namespace tests
{
  struct Fixture
  {
    std::vector<int> v1;
    std::vector<int> v2;

    static Fixture create();
  };

  TEST_CASE(test1)
  {
    auto fixture = Fixture::create();
    std::cout << "running test1";
  }
}