CLion 2018.1 is released: more C++17, WSL, CMake Install, Fortran and Rust plugins -- JetBrains

By Anastasia Kazakova | Mar 29, 2018 06:52 AM | Tags: None

A new release is here!

PVS-Studio is now available on macOS: 64 weaknesses in the Apple's XNU Kernel

By Andrey Karpov | Mar 28, 2018 05:16 AM | Tags: xnu kernel static code analysis pvs-studio macos bugs

A new version of the PVS-Studio analyzer 6.23 is working under macOS, which allows you to check the projects written in C and C++. Our team decided to perform a XNU Kernel check to coincide it with this event.

PVS-Studio is now available on macOS: 64 weaknesses in the Apple's XNU Kernel

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

Although the XNU Kernel is relatively small, it's a challenge to study the analyzer warnings alone, which takes much time. False positives make the check more complicated, since I haven't performed the preliminary analyzer configuration. I just quickly looked through the warnings, writing out code fragments that, in my opinion, represent interest. This is more than enough for writing a quite large article. PVS-Studio analyzer easily finds a large number of interesting bugs.

Emulating templated generic lambda expressions -- Krzysztof Ostrowski

By fj | Mar 25, 2018 11:36 PM | Tags: None

Embedding and recovering the type information in generic lambda expressions.

Emulating templated generic lambda expressions

by Krzysztof Ostrowski

From the article:

One of the greatest advantages of lambda expressions is their locality. It is really comfortable to reason about the code if the most of its parts are in the "near" scope, and the inversion of control is limited. On the other hand, optimiser's life is much easier with lambdas (they are just syntactic sugar, thus their actual structure is defined by the compiler). Moreover, lambdas' opaque mangled names can drastically reduce compile times. Parametrically polymorphic (generic) lambda expressions introduce additional flexibility in algorithm implementation and minimise maintenance work.

Paradoxically, generic lambda expressions in C++17 are somewhat too generic. That characteristic announces itself in inability to fix the lambda parameters in advance. Unlike in function templates, we cannot specify the parameter types explicitly to effectively disable template argument deduction from the passed function arguments.

Some steps towards templated generic lambdas are going to be taken in C++20. For the time being, a simple technique that emulates templated generic lambdas proposed in this article may be reused.

HPX V1.1 released -- STE||AR Group

By Hartmut Kaiser | Mar 24, 2018 07:20 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing c++17 c++14 c++11

The STE||AR Group has released V1.0 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for parallelism and concurrency.

HPX V1.1 Released

The newest version of HPX (V1.1) is now available for download! Please see here for the release notes.

HPX exposes an API fully conforming to the concurrency related parts of the C++11/C++14/C++17 standards, extended and applied to distributed and heterogeneous computing, and aligned with the ongoing standardization discussions.

    HPX is a general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale. It implements all of the related facilities as defined by the C++ Standard. As of this writing, HPX provides the only widely available open-source implementation of the new C++17 parallel algorithms. Additionally, HPX implements functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process, such as large parts of the C++ Concurrency TS, task blocks, data-parallel algorithms, executors, index-based parallel for loops, and many more. It also extends the existing C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case (e.g. compute clusters) and for heterogeneous systems (e.g. GPUs).
    HPX seamlessly enables a new asynchronous C++ Standard Programming Model which tends to improve the parallel efficiency of our applications and helps reduce complexities usually associated with concurrency

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2--Christine Ruana

By Marco Arena | Mar 22, 2018 09:29 AM | Tags: visual studio

Today Microsoft released the second preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7:

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2

by Christine Ruana

C++ Standards Conformance Highlights (detailed C++ release notes here):

Implemented Template argument deduction for class templates:

​pair p{2, 2.5};

Full implementation of Expression SFINAE

Expand the using declaration to support pack expansion semantics for variadic base class members

Implemented parallel algorithms conforming to the ISO C++17 standard

wxWidgets 3.0.4 Released

By Danny Scott | Mar 19, 2018 09:51 AM | Tags: None

The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new release of our open source framework for the development of native cross-platform applications in C++.

wxWidgets Release 3.0.4

by the wxWidgets team

About the release:

wxWidgets 3.0.4 is a stable bug fix release in 3.0 branch.

More information is available at wxWidgets home page and in the online documentation.

Announcing the Meeting C++ employer listing

By Meeting C++ | Mar 16, 2018 02:51 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

News from Meeting C++: the job section features now a listing of C++ employers, which support Meeting C++. Also you can post your own jobs now at Meeting C++!

The Meeting C++ employer listing is online

by Jens Weller

From the article:

With this week, a feature of the old website returns: the Meeting C++ employer listing. So companies with open C++ positions get a permanent representation at Meeting C++ with their profile and contact information.

POCO Release 1.9.0 Available

By Alex Fabijanic | Mar 12, 2018 02:18 PM | Tags: poco

POCO 1.9.0 is now available:

POCO Release 1.9.0 available

by POCO Team

About the release

POCO C++ Libraries release 1.9.0 is available. Major new features include additional text encodings, available in the Poco::Encodings library, and support for Internationalized Domain Names in the Poco::Net::DNS class.

See the CHANGELOG for the full list of all 20+ changes. Upgrading to this release is recommended.

 

Clang 6.0.0 released

By Blog Staff | Mar 8, 2018 11:54 AM | Tags: None

LLVM 6.0.0 and Clang 6.0.0 are now available.

Clang 6.0.0 Release Notes

From the announcement:

Clang’s default C++ dialect is now gnu++14 instead of gnu++98. This means Clang will by default accept code using features from C++14 and conforming GNU extensions. Projects incompatible with C++14 can add -std=gnu++98 to their build settings to restore the previous behaviour.

Added support for some features from the C++ standard after C++17 (provisionally known as C++2a but expected to be C++20). This support can be enabled with the -std=c++2a flag. This enables:

• Support for __VA_OPT__, to allow variadic macros to easily provide different expansions when they are invoked without variadic arguments.
• Recognition of the <=> token (the C++2a three-way comparison operator).
• Support for default member initializers for bit-fields.
• Lambda capture of *this.
• Pointer-to-member calls using const &-qualified pointers on temporary objects.

A warning has been added for a <= token followed immediately by a > character. Code containing such constructs will change meaning in C++2a due to the addition of the <=> operator.

Clang implements the “destroying operator delete” feature described in C++ committee paper P0722R1 <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p0722r1.html>, which is targeting inclusion in C++2a but has not yet been voted into the C++ working draft. Support for this feature is enabled by the presence of the standard library type std::destroying_delete_t.

Static Code Analyzer PVS-Studio 6.22 Now Supports ARM Compilers (Keil, IAR)

By Andrey Karpov | Mar 2, 2018 04:26 AM | Tags: tools static code analyzer keil iar embedded devops arm

Now our articles have every chance to become even more interesting because PVS-Studio can now check the code of embedded devices. We have added support for a few ARM compilers, which I talk about in detail below.

Static Code Analyzer PVS-Studio 6.22 Now Supports ARM Compilers (Keil, IAR)

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

I find the RT-Thread operating system a perfect candidate to be the first embedded system checked with PVS-Studio. I glanced through the analysis report by PVS-Studio and picked 95 warnings that I thought to be the most interesting ones. Too see all those messages for yourself, download the rt-thread-html-log.zip archive with the full HTML report. We introduced this format not so long ago, and some users may not know about it. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to explain it once again.