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What makes Clang so special? -- CoderGears

By Blog Staff | Nov 12, 2014 08:00 AM | Tags: None

Today on CoderGears:

What makes Clang so special?

by CoderGears Team

From the article:

It’s proven that Clang is a mature compiler for C and C++ as [are the] GCC and Microsoft compilers, but what makes it special is the fact that it’s not just a compiler. It’s also an infrastructure to build tools. Thanks to its library based architecture which makes the reuse and integration of functionality provided more flexible and easier to integrate into other projects...

N4257, N4273, N4282: New papers adopted for Library Fundamentals 2 TS

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 10:06 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following new papers (among other already-posted ones) were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the Library Fundamentals "2" Technical Specification

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4257: Delimited iterators (Mike Spertus, Nathan Wilson)

N4273: Uniform Container Erasure (Stephan T. Lavavej)

N4282: The World’s Dumbest Smart Pointer (Walter E. Brown)

N4270, N4288: New papers adopted for Library Fundamentals TS

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 10:02 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following new papers (among other already-posted ones) were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the Library Fundamentals Technical Specification

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4270: Collected Edits to the Library Fundamentals TS (Alisdair Meredith)

N4288: Strike string_view::clear from the Library Fundamentals TS (Alisdair Meredith)

N4275, N4276: New papers adopted for Parallelism TS

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 09:56 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following new papers (among other already-posted ones) were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the Parallelism Technical Specification

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4275: Response to National Body comments for C++ Extensions for Parallelism (Hans-J. Boehm)

N4276: Transform Reduce, an Additional Algorithm for C++ Extensions for Parallelism(Jared Hoberock)

New standard library papers adopted for C++17

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 09:37 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following new standard library papers (among other already-posted ones) were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the C++ working paper

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4258: Cleaning-up noexcept in the Library (Nicolai Josuttis)

N4277: TriviallyCopyable reference_wrapper (Agustín Bergé)

N4279: Improved insertion interface for unique-key maps (Thomas Köppe)

N4280: Non-member size() and more (Riccardo Marcangelo)

N4284: Contiguous Iterators (Jens Maurer)

New core language papers adopted for C++17

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 09:03 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following new core language papers (among other already-posted ones) were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the C++ working paper

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4259: Wording for std::uncaught_exceptions (Herb Sutter)

N4261: Proposed resolution for Core Issue 330: Qualification conversions and pointers to arrays of pointers (Jens Maurer)

N4262: Wording for Forwarding References (Herb Sutter, Bjarne Stroustrup, Gabriel Dos Reis)

N4266: Attributes for namespaces and enumerators (Richard Smith)

N4267: Adding u8 character literals (Richard Smith)

N4268: Allow constant evaluation for all non-type template arguments (Richard Smith)

N4285: Cleanup for exception-specification and throw-expression (Jens Maurer)

N4295: Folding expressions (Andrew Sutton, Richard Smith)

N4265, N4272: Transactional Memory TS wording -- Michael Wong, Jens Maurer, et al.

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 08:52 AM | Tags: None

Note: The following papers were approved on Saturday at the end of last week's ISO C++ meeting for the Transactional Memory Technical Specification.

New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

N4272: Working Draft, Technical Specification for C++ Extensions for Transactional Memory (Michael Wong)

N4265: Transactional Memory Support for C++: Wording (revision 3) (Jens Maurer, et al.)

Effective Modern C++ available today -- Scott Meyers

By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2014 01:01 AM | Tags: None

Available today on O'Reilly and Amazon, in print in early December:

EMC++ Exits Publishing Purgatory!

by Scott Meyers

From the announcement:

I just received the following from O'Reilly: "Congratulations! Your book went to print on Friday, and we've now completed production. The Retail Availability Date for ebooks on oreilly.com and Amazon is tomorrow, 11/11. For print books, it's estimated at 12/2."

Trip report: using std::cpp 2014 -- J. Daniel Garcia

By Blog Staff | Nov 10, 2014 09:34 AM | Tags: None

usingcpp2014.PNGThis just in from our Spanish correspondent:

Event report: using std::cpp 2014 at Spain

J. Daniel Garcia

From the article:

The success of this event is fully in line with several other international events as the recent CppCon in USA or Meeting C++ in Germany and can be seen as another proof of the high interest with which the industry has received the new versions of the C++ standard. It is also worth mentioning that as many other countries there is also a farly active C++ meetup group in Spain...