Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension--Marc Goodner

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 19, 2015 12:46 AM | Tags: advanced

Annoucing a new tool in Visual Studio:

Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension

by Marc Goodner

From the article:

Earlier this year I wrote a post on how you could debug C++ code on Linux from Visual Studio. It was a bit cumbersome, but it was doable. Today we are releasing the Visual Studio GDB Debugger extension preview. This will enable debugging remote Linux targets including IoT devices...

2015-11 post-Kona mailing available

By Blog Staff | Nov 18, 2015 10:03 AM | Tags: None

The 2015-11 mailing of new standards papers is now available.

NOTE: A number of these papers have already been publicized on this blog. This is the complete list including ones not previously publicized.

C++ meetup in Madrid, Spain: C++ in the video game industry.

By Jordi Mon Companys | Nov 17, 2015 06:30 AM | Tags: community c++14 c++11 basics

Yes! A new edition of the local C++ meetup will take place on the 4th of December at Google Campus' facilities. All the info and RSVPs below:

C++ en la industria del videojuego

by Jordi Mon Companys.

What to expect?

Jose Daniel García will moderate a table of experts in gamedev in C++ that will friendly elbaorate on the state of the language on regards to gamedev, its advantages and threats. Afterwards we will join forces with Product Hunt Madrid and we will have the chance to hear how King develops its games and how a group of students from U-Tad university have managed to get their game nominated to the Play Station Awards. We will water down our thoughts and reflections with plenty of beer thanks to King.com's sponsorship.

Pay attention to unformatted nature of getline -- Marco Arena

By Marco Arena | Nov 15, 2015 10:49 AM | Tags: basics

A simple stream function like getline can lead to undesirable behavior: 

Pay attention to unformatted nature of getline

by Marco Arena

From the article:

Some years ago that piece of code was migrated to C++ streams (since files to read were really small and simple) and a silly bug was introduced...

Breaking all the Eggs in C++ -- Scott Meyers

By Felix Petriconi | Nov 13, 2015 02:08 PM | Tags: intermediate

Scott Meyers takes a deeper look into uninitialized memory in his recent blog post.

Breaking all the Eggs in C++

by Scott Meyers

From the article:

If you want to make an omelet, so the saying goes, you have to break a few eggs. Think of the omelet you could make if you broke not just a few eggs, but all of them! Then think of what it'd be like to not just break them, but to replace them with newer, better eggs. That's what this post is about: breaking all the eggs in C++, yet ending up with better eggs than you started with.

NULL, 0, and nullptr

NULL came from C. It interfered with type-safety (it depends on an implicit conversion from void* to typed pointers), so C++ introduced 0 as a better way to express null pointers. That led to problems of its own, because 0 isn't a pointer, it's an int. C++11 introduced nullptr, which embodies the idea of a null pointer better than NULL or 0. Yet NULL and 0-as-a-null-pointer remain valid. Why? If nullptr is better than both of them, why keep the inferior ways around?

Backward-compatibility, that's why. Eliminating NULL and 0-as-a-null-pointer would break exiting programs. In fact, it would probably break every egg in C++'s basket. Nevertheless, I'm suggesting we get rid of NULL and 0-as-a-null-pointer, thus eliminating the confusion and redundancy inherent in having three ways to say the same thing (two of which we discourage people from using).

CppCast Episode 34: High Performance Computing with Dmitri Nesteruk

By robwirving | Nov 13, 2015 08:27 AM | Tags: None

Episode 34 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Dmitri Nesteruk to talk about High Performance Computing and some of the new features coming to Clion and ReSharper for C++ from JetBrains.

CppCast Episode 34: High Performance Computing with Dmitri Nesteruk

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Dmitri Nesteruk is a developer, speaker, podcaster and a technical evangelist at JetBrains. His interests lie in software development and integration practices in the areas of computation, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. His technological interests include C#, F# and C++ programming as well high-performance computing using technologies such as CUDA. He has been a C# MVP since 2009.

HPX version 0.9.11 released -- STE||AR Group

By Hartmut Kaiser | Nov 13, 2015 05:32 AM | Tags: performance parallelism experimental distributed computing c++14 c++11

The STE||AR Group has released V0.9.11 of HPX -- A general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale.

HPX V0.9.11 Released

The newest version of HPX (V0.9.11) 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 and C++14 standards, extended and applied to distributed computing.

From the announcement:

• In this release our team has focused on developing higher level C++ programming interfaces which simplify the use of HPX in applications and ensure their portability in terms of code and performance. We paid particular attention to align all of these changes with the existing C++ Standard or with the ongoing standardization work. Other major features include the introduction of executors and various policies which enable customizing the ‘where’ and ‘when’ of task and data placement.
• This release consolidates many of the APIs exposed by HPX. We introduced a new uniform way of creating (local and remote) objects, we added distribution policies allowing to manage and customize data placement and migration, we unified the way various types of parallelism are made available to the user.

Introduction to Variable Templates of C++14--Yu Xuan Zhang

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 11, 2015 03:27 AM | Tags: c++14 basics

Do you know about variable templates?

Introduction to Variable Templates of C++14

by Yu Xuan Zhang

From the article:

The variable template, which comes from N3651, is one of the major proposals in Standard C++14. The main purpose of the variable template is to simplify definitions and uses of parameterized constants.

Rules before C++14 do not allow declaring a variable using a template declaration. There are workarounds for this problem before C++14, but they are either redundant or complicated...

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, October 2015--Botond Ballo

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 11, 2015 03:24 AM | Tags: experimental community

Another trip report of the last meeting in Kona:

Trip Report: C++ Standards Meeting in Kona, October 2015

by Botond Ballo

From the article:

Last week I attended a meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in Kona, Hawaii. This was the second committee meeting in 2015; you can find my reports on the past few meetings here (June 2014, Rapperswil), here (November 2014, Urbana-Champaign), and here (May 2015, Lenexa). These reports, particularly the Lenexa one, provide useful context for this post.

The focus of this meeting was primarily C++17. There are many ambitious features underway for standardization, and the time has come to start deciding what which of them will make C++17 and which of them won’t. The ones that won’t will target a future standard, or a Technical Specification (which can eventually also be merged into a future standard). In addition, there are a number of existing Technical Specifications in various stages of completion...

What is Code Modernization -- Mike Pearce

By Mantosh Kumar | Nov 10, 2015 10:13 PM | Tags: performance intermediate efficiency

Discussion regarding systematic approach to go about code modernization.

What is Code Modernization?

by Mike Pearce (Intel)

From the article: