Five Awesome C++ Papers for the Q1 2021 and C++23 Status

by Bartlomiej Filipek

Between 2018 and 2020, I released several articles with top 5 proposals just around a new ISO C++ meeting happened. Since March 2020, this pattern broke as the meeting went online. Why not restart the series? We can look at the recent papers from a whole Quarter.

Let’s start!

Clang 12.0.0 is released

This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 12.0.0. Here we describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the general LLVM release notes, see the LLVM documentation. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the latest release, please see the Clang Web Site or the LLVM Web Site.

Note that if you are reading this file from a Git checkout or the main Clang web page, this document applies to the next release, not the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the releases page...

Visual Studio Code C++ Extension April 2021 Update: CUDA C/C++ IntelliSense and Apple Silicon Support

by Julia Reid

The April 2021 update of the Visual Studio Code C++ extension is now available! This latest release offers brand new features—such as IntelliSense for CUDA C/C++ and native language server support for Apple Silicon— along with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. To find out more about all the enhancements, check out our release notes on GitHub...

Online C++ tool fair

by Jens Weller

Similar to the job fair, I decided to host a short tool fair in April, to give the community the chance to see demos and extend their knowledge around C++ tooling!
Event will happen between 20:00 - 22 CEST.
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Present at the event:

CLion 2021.1: New Code Analysis Options, Updates to Remote Mode, and Postfix Completion

by Anastasia Kazakova

This new version provides an overhaul for code analysis, allowing it to catch more potential issues and guideline inconsistencies, enhances the debugging experience, and improves the capabilities of remote mode. In addition to the improved C and C++ experience, CLion 2021.1 introduces updated Rust and Swift support and valuable changes from the IntelliJ Platform...

Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: MSVC Compiler

by Augustin Popa

The AddressSanitizer (ASan) is generally available for MSVC since the recently-released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We’ve already shown how easy it can be to find bugs in even production-ready code like EASTL. Here I’ll share an example of how it found a real bug in the MSVC compiler itself.

The idea was straightforward: ASan finds bugs, and we’re always interested in finding bugs in the compiler. Just like you can turn ASan on in your projects and run your tests, we’ve been turning on ASan on our project (the compiler) and running it on our tests. Sure enough, this found bugs...

Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference

by Sy Brand

Last year we ran the first Pure Virtual C++, a free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This May we’re doing it again! Sign-up for free on the website to be the first to hear about our program schedule, access our extra on-demand C++ demos, and get more virtual surprises...

Organizing the first Meeting C++ online tool fair on April 20th!

by Jens Weller

On the evening of April 20th you'll be able to see demos, meet and chat with different C++ tool vendors at the online C++ tool fair!

Join the event on Meetup.

vcpkg Host Dependencies for Cross-Compilation

by Robert Schumacher

If you’re not familiar with our C++ library manager vcpkg, welcome! This post covers an intermediate/advanced topic, so you may want to first get an overview and try things out from the vcpkg GitHub page or some of our previous blogs.

C++ User Group Meetings in April 2021

by Jens Weller

The monthly list of upcoming C++ User Group meetings, still online due to the pandemic!

In April Meeting C++ online hosts two different events: on April 8th Andreas Fertig will speak about C++ insights and on April 20th Meeting C++ hosts an online C++ Tool fair.