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An interview that went viral -- Rainer Grimm

By Blog Staff | Jan 1, 2023 11:32 AM | Tags: None

cpp.pngSending us straight into the new year with cash, cars, and games:

An interview that went viral

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

I gave the interview for the e-finance-blog "efinancialcareers". I essentially stated the following:

  • C++ is heavily used in the finance industry, for game developers, and in the automotive industry.
  • When you want to learn C++, start at least with C++11.
  • C++ is often used to build infrastructure.
  • C++ is too big to fall.

... In total, I got almost 2000 comments. Today, I want to present the main points about the final interview, because this is my motivation for writing articles, posts, and books, recording videos, and teaching and mentoring C++...

libstdc++ gets C++20 chrono

By Blog Staff | Dec 24, 2022 10:34 AM | Tags: None

Screenshot_2022-12-24_094211.pngImagine Jonathan Wakely in a red suit with his helper elves, delivering presents:

libstdc++ gets C++20 <chrono>

As seen on Reddit:

It looks like Jonathan Wakely has just today contributed a huge amount of effort towards <chrono>.

He's added the time zones, leap seconds, all that good stuff.

He's even added GDB pretty printers for inevitable date time debugging!

And these features are supported in <format>, which libstdc++13 has, if you weren't already aware. He's also made many other various improvements. Lets give a round of applause to Jonathan Wakely!

Using modules in the big three compilers

By Blog Staff | Dec 24, 2022 10:21 AM | Tags: None

With detailed step by step instructions on how to make it work...

Using modules in the big three compilers: a small experiment

 From the article:

The goal of my experiment was to see how easy it is to write code that a) uses C++20 modules, b) can be compiled by GCC, Clang and MSVC without using conditional compilation, c) imports something from the standard library, d) exports at least one templated function, e) has a peculiarity that makes the module harder to find (in my case, the module is named b but the file that contains it is named a.cppm).

The experiment sort of succeeded...

The Strategy Pattern -- Rainer Grimm

By Blog Staff | Dec 20, 2022 01:54 PM | Tags: None

A canonical example:

 

The Strategy Pattern

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

Purpose: Defines a family of algorithms and encapsulates them in objects

Also known as: Policy

Use case:

  • Different variations of an algorithm are needed
  • The client does not need to know the algorithm
  • The algorithm should be exchangeable at the run time of a program...

The Template Method -- Rainer Grimm

By Blog Staff | Dec 19, 2022 01:53 PM | Tags: None

With or without actual templates:

The Template Method

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

The key idea of the Template Method is easy to get. You define the skeleton of an algorithm that consists of a few typical steps. Implementation classes can only override the steps but cannot change the skeleton. The steps are often called hook methods...

High-confidence Lifetime Checks in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2 -- Gabor Horvath

By Blog Staff | Dec 17, 2022 03:00 PM | Tags: None

More safety please:

High-confidence Lifetime Checks in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2

by Gabor Horvath

From the article:

The C++ Core Guidelines’ Lifetime Profile, aims to detect lifetime problems, like dangling pointers and references, in C++ code. ... Lately, there has been an increased push in the C++ community to introduce lifetime-related safety features, which has led us to revisit the lifetime analysis in MSVC.

We spent the last couple of months looking into the results of using the lifetime analysis on real world code. This blog post summarizes our experience and the improvements we made along the way. The biggest change is the introduction of a new set of warnings. These warnings are the high-confidence versions of the existing warnings. Users who want less noise can enable only the high-confidence warnings, while users who want more rigorous checks at the cost of noise can enable both the old and the new warnings. As of 17.5, the high-confidence warnings are still experimental, but depending on the feedback we might include them in some of the recommended profiles in future versions...

C and C++ Profiling Tools -- David Faure

By Blog Staff | Dec 17, 2022 02:59 PM | Tags: None

When profiling is a good thing:

C/C++ Profiling Tools

by David Faure

From the article:

This blog will give you a brief overview of profiling C and C++ applications. Additionally, it will lay before you all of the tools available, with the purpose of aiding you in choosing the right tools at the right times...