Deep Learning with C++ - Peter Goldsborough - Meeting C++ 2017
A new video from Meeting C++ 2017:
Deep Learning with C++
by Peter Goldsborough
Spectre mitigations in MSVC--Andrew Pardoe
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...
CopperSpice: Templates and Open Source
New videos on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
C++ Templates in the real world
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
Template techniques for accomplishing real world tasks in C++, including some not taught in textbooks. We also present an example of avoiding circular dependencies in template definitions.
Copyright Copyleft
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
A practical and acessible look at some common open source licenses. If you write, read, or use software this is important material.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
Slides of the 9th of January 2018 BeCPP Meeting -- Marc Gregoire
On January 9th 2018, the Belgian C++ Users Group had their next event sponsored by Barco.
Slides of the 9th of January 2018 BeCPP Meeting
About the event:
This was our users group biggest event ever. We had around 140 attendees!
Here are the presentations:
- "Threads are evil" (Frederik Vannoote)
- "Legacy code refactoring case" (Roeland Van Lembergen)
- "Boost.Asio C++ (Network) Programming" (Lieven de Cock)
If you couldn’t attend the event in person, or if you would like to go over the material again, you can download them from the BeCPP website.
PVS-Studio 6.21 release: support for CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) was added
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.
Dragging C++ into the Modern era
Guy Davidson speaks about the proposed 2d API for C++
Dragging C++ into the Modern era
by Guy Davidson
CppCast Episode 133: Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt
Episode 133 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers.
CppCast Episode 133: Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created Compiler Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript.
Modern CMake for modular design
A talk about modern CMake.
Modern CMake for modular design
by Mathieu Ropert
How a weak_ptr might prevent full memory cleanup of managed object -- Bartlomiej Filipek
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How a weak_ptr might prevent full memory cleanup of managed object
by Bartlomiej Filipek
From the article:
It appears that in some cases memory allocated for the object controlled by smart_ptr might not be released until all weak pointers are also ‘dead’.
Quick Q: () vs {} when constructing objects
Quick A: Read the core guidelines
Recently on reddit:
() vs {} when constructing objects
If I know the type, I'll write {}. If the type is generic, I'll only write {} with zero parameters. Otherwise, I might construct an initializer_list I didn't intend to...