By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 8, 2018 07:19 PM | Tags: community boost
It continues to grow.
Outcome accepted into the Boost C++ Libraries
From the article:
The prime motivation for acceptance is:
- Reviewers have real-world use cases today for which they found Outcome to be an effective and best available alternative; and which is consistent with current-need and expectations; and which is consistent with ongoing C++ Standard evolution efforts...
By James | Feb 1, 2018 11:08 AM | Tags: None
We are happy to inform you that CppDepend v2018.1 has been released and is now available for download!
More Information about CppDepend v2018.1 new features!
by CoderGears
About the release:
CppDepend v2018.1 allows architects and developers to analyze C and C++ code base. Measure, query and visualize source code and avoid unexpected issues, technical debt and complexity.
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About the release
With CppDepend v2018.1 Save time, reduce costs and deliver high-quality code with these important updates:
- CERT (SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard ) standard checks
- HICPP (High Integrity C++) standard checks
- More rules to check your modern C++ codebase(C++11,C++14,C++17): More than 20 modernization detections
- Clang-tidy tool embedded for more issues detection
- Analysis of the CMake format specification: CppDepend analyzes now out of the box the CMake Compilation Database Format Specification.
- C++ Core Guidelines support
- New rules related to the performance and the readability issues
By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 29, 2018 06:45 PM | Tags: community
It continues to improve:
From the article;
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation...
By Meeting C++ | Jan 29, 2018 04:18 AM | Tags: tooling modern c++ meetingcpp clang-tidy clang
A new tooling related talk from Meeting C++ 2017:
Bringing clang-tidy magic to Visual Studio C++ Developers
by Victor Ciura
By Marco Arena | Jan 22, 2018 09:47 AM | Tags: visual studio basics
Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2 includes a set of updates to the C++ Core Guidelines Check extension:
C++ Core Check in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2
by Sergiy Oryekhov
From the article:
We added more checks to help with the effort of making code cleaner, more secure and maintainable. This document is a quick overview of the new rules...
By Marco Arena | Jan 16, 2018 12:43 AM | Tags: visual studio
If you are a developer whose code operates on data that crosses a trust boundary then you should consider recompiling your code with the /Qspectre switch:
Spectre mitigations in MSVC
by Andrew Pardoe
From the article:
Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM...
By Andrey Karpov | Jan 15, 2018 04:03 AM | Tags: pvs-studio devops cwe
PVS-Studio is a tool for bug detection in the source code of programs, written in C, C++, and C#. It works in Windows and Linux environment.
PVS-Studio 6.21 Release
by PVS-Studio Team
What's new:
- Support for CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) was added to C/C++/C# analyzers.
- HTML log with source code navigation can now be saved from Visual Studio plug-ins and the Standalone tool.
- WDK (Windows Driver Kit) projects for Visual Studio 2017 are now supported.
- PVS-Studio plug-in for SonarQube was updated for the latest LTS version 6.7.
- V1007. The value from the uninitialized optional is used. Probably it is a mistake.
By Jordi Mon Companys | Jan 10, 2018 12:06 PM | Tags: performance efficiency community
Conan reaches maturity milestone
Conan C/C++ Package Manager Hits 1.0
A commitment to stability
From the article:
Conan 1.0 is mainly a commitment to stability and robustness. Maintaining your scripts and projects will only mean upgrading them to use new features without having to modify them in any way to keep supporting existing ones.
By Marco Arena | Dec 20, 2017 12:49 AM | Tags: visual studio
Great news from the Visual C++ Team Blog:
C++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6
by Stephan T. Lavavej
From the article:
As usual, here are feature tables for the STL and compiler, plus a detailed list of STL improvements...
By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 18, 2017 02:52 PM | Tags: community boost
New version of boost!
Boost 1.66 is out!
From the article:
New Libraries
- Beast: Portable HTTP, WebSocket, and network operations using only C++11 and Boost.Asio, from Vinnie Falco.
- CallableTraits: A spiritual successor to Boost.FunctionTypes, Boost.CallableTraits is a header-only C++11 library for the compile-time inspection and manipulation of all 'callable' types. Additional support for C++17 features, from Barrett Adair.
- Mp11: A C++11 metaprogramming library, from Peter Dimov.
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