Heaptrack v1.0.0 Release -- Milian Wolff

By Giuseppe D'Angelo | Mar 9, 2017 12:48 PM | Tags: None

Milian Wolff announces the first stable release of Heaptrack, a fast heap memory profiler for C and C++ software running on Linux.

Heaptrack v1.0.0 Release

by Milian Wolff

From the article:

Heaptrack is a fast heap memory profiler that runs on Linux. It allows you to track all heap memory allocations at run-time.

Afterwards, the accompanying GUI tool can be used to find optimization opportunities in your code by analyzing the recorded profiling data. It allows you to:

• Inspect peak heap memory consumption
• Find memory leaks
• Count overall number of memory allocations and find temporary allocations
• Find small allocations with large overhead

Zapcc 1.0 - A Much Faster C++ Compiler

By herbsto | Mar 8, 2017 06:00 AM | Tags: performance

We are happy to announce Zapcc, a Clang/LLVM based C++ compiler, with much faster compilations.

Zapcc

by the Zapcc team

About the compiler:

Typically, Zapcc accelerate full C++ builds by x2-x5, and incremental builds by x10 and more.

Zapcc is available for evaluation on the companies website.

Feel free to try it out!

Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers

By Marco Arena | Mar 7, 2017 03:06 PM | Tags: visual studio

The following Visual Studio 2017 launch day articles have gone live on the VCBlog:

Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers – you will love it

C++ Code Analysis improvements in Visual Studio 2017 RTM

Check for const correctness with the C++ Core Guidelines Checker

Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade: Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost “too easy”

MSVC: The best choice for Windows

Use any C++ Compiler with Visual Studio

C++ game development workload in Visual Studio 2017

Completed UserVoice Suggestions in Visual Studio 2017

C++ Standards Conformance from Microsoft

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension March 2017 Update

C++14 conformance improvements: constexpr and aggregate initialization

Finding installed Visual C++ tools for Visual Studio 2017

Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL--Andrew Pardoe

By Marco Arena | Feb 23, 2017 03:32 AM | Tags: visual studio experimental

Now you can learn Concepts TS in Visual Studio 2017 by targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):

Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL

by Andrew Pardoe

From the article:

Concepts enable adding requirements to a set of template parameters, essentially creating a kind of interface. The C++ community has been waiting years for this feature to make it into the standard...

GoingNative 56: CMake in Visual Studio

By Marco Arena | Feb 17, 2017 07:08 AM | Tags: visual studio

In this episode, Marian Luparu and Iyyappa Murugandi chat with Steve about CMake support in Visual Studio:

GoingNative 56: CMake in Visual Studio

with Steve Carroll, Marian Luparu and Iyyappa Murugandi

How C++ lambda expressions can improve your Qt code--Aurélien Gâteau

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 30, 2017 12:44 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11

Lambdas are helping you.

How C++ lambda expressions can improve your Qt code

by Aurélien Gâteau

From the article:

In case you’ve missed it, lambda expression support has been added to C++ in C++11. In this article we are going to see how to take advantage of lambda expressions in your Qt code to simplify it and make it more robust, but also which pitfalls to avoid...

vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey--Eric Mittelette

By Marco Arena | Jan 12, 2017 08:07 AM | Tags: visual studio

The Visual C++ Team is asking for your feedback on vcpkg:

vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey

by Eric Mittelette

Link to the survey:

Visual C++ Survey - Vcpkg

From the article:

vcpkg, a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows, was published 3 months ago. We started with 20 libraries and now the C++ community has added 121 new C++ libraries...

How PVS-Studio does the bug search: methods and technologies

By Andrey Karpov | Jan 12, 2017 05:41 AM | Tags: static code analysis pvs-studio c++

PVS-Studio is a static code analyzer, that searches for errors and vulnerabilities in programs written in C, C++ and C#. In this article, I am going to uncover the technologies that we use in PVS-Studio analyzer. In addition to the general theoretical information, I will show practical examples of how certain technology allows the detection of bugs.

How PVS-Studio does the bug search: methods and technologies

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

The definition of the pattern looks quite simple, but in practice the implementation of the diagnostic is quite complicated. It's not enough just to analyze only "#define RShift(a) a >> 3". If warnings are issued for all strings of this kind, there will be too many of them. We should have a look at the way the macro expands in every particular case, and try to define the situations where it was done intentionally, and when the brackets are really missing.

A new way of blogging about C++--Yehonathan Sharvit

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 3, 2017 01:40 PM | Tags: community

A very interesting plugin for our blogs:

A new way of blogging about C++

by Yehonathan Sharvit

From the article:

This blog post is about to show a new way of blogging about C++.

Look at a typical blog post about C++: The post usually presents a couple of code snippets. As I see it, there are two pains with code snippets:

1. they contain the input and the output but not the actual evaluation of the input
2. it’s impossible for the reader to modify the output...

Boost 1.63.0

By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 29, 2016 01:50 PM | Tags: community boost

A new version is out!

Boost 1.63.0