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By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 20, 2017 01:11 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental
constexpr evolves!
Constexpr Additions in C++17
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Last year, I have written about constexpr and compile time constants in general. Last week, the Draft International Standard for C++17 has been sent to its ballot. Time to provide some updates to earlier posts!
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 20, 2017 01:06 PM | Tags: intermediate
What do you think?
Does const mean thread-safe?
by Anthony Williams
From the article:
There was a discussion recently on the cpplang slack about whether const meant thread-safe.
As with everything in life, it depends. In some ways, yes it does. In others, it does not. Read on for the details.
By Marco Arena | Mar 20, 2017 02:02 AM | Tags: intermediate
The use of Singleton is often justified by the will of being able to easily refer to a unique object from any point. Giuseppe Puoti describes an alternative:
Singleton revisited
by Giuseppe Puoti
From the article:
It happens quite often to deal with those annoying objects, used everywhere in your applications. This may be because of a poorly designed application but, sometime, it is simply an inevitable condition...
By Meeting C++ | Mar 2, 2017 07:09 AM | Tags: reflection intermediate experimental c++20 basics advanced
Since the overview on the current papers for Kona, I wanted to know more about reflection...
Reflections on the reflection proposals
by Jens Weller
From the article
A few weeks ago I wrote a short overview over the most interesting papers for the current C++ Committee meeting in Kona, Hawaii. The big surprise was that there were many papers on reflection, while there already is a very detailed proposal for reflection.
With the C++ committee currently in Kona discussing lots of proposals, there will be some changes to the on going effort for reflection, but the current proposals are detailed enough to give an overview.
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 1, 2017 01:40 PM | Tags: intermediate community
A virtual container.
Generating Sequences
By Anthony Williams
From the article:
I was having a discussion with my son over breakfast about C++ and Python, and he asked me if C++ had anything equivalent to Python's
range()function for generating a sequence of integers. I had to tell him that no, the C++ standard library didn't supply such a function, but there were algorithms for generating sequences (std::generateandstd::generate_n) into an existing container, and you could write something that would provide a "virtual" container that would supply a sequence as you iterated over it with range-for...
By Jason Turner | Feb 20, 2017 09:48 AM | Tags: intermediate c++14
Episode 51 of C++ Weekly.
Advanced Stateful Lambdas
by Jason Turner
About the show:
In this episode Jason tries to see just how far he can take the idea of a “stateful lambda” by building one that can be manipulated and interacted with from the caller side.
By Thomas Young | Feb 18, 2017 07:36 AM | Tags: intermediate
Blog post about API design for objects with dependencies and lifetime management:
Who owns who
by Thomas Young
About the article
A key take-away is that a simple reference counting strategy can be the ideal way to manage lifetimes for API objects, since, as the API designer we can choose to enforce a directed acyclic graph dependency structure.
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 15, 2017 03:31 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Do you feel the same way?
Lambda Overdose
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Lambdas are a nice recent addition to C++. They are cool, they are hip, and they tend to be overused and misused.
Since lambda expressions came up in C++11 and got a huge boost in usability in C++14, they have been all the rage. Don’t get me wrong. Lambdas really are useful and cool and everything. But reading blog posts, the CppLang Slack channel and other sources lately has given me the impression that some people use lambdas in ways they should not be used...
By Meeting C++ | Feb 14, 2017 04:41 AM | Tags: qt intermediate experimental advanced
An update on the HTML Text Editor I hacked with Qt and TinyMCE3:
Refactoring the HTML Text Editor for QWebEngine
by Jens Weller
From the article:
In the last post, I described my experience with using MSVC as a compiler in combination with QtCreator. The reason I set this up was, that with Qt 5.7 QWebkit isn't anymore supported, and the HTML TextEditor based on tinymce3 is a central part of my application. Instead of QWebkit there is now QWebEngine, based on chromium, a very fine solution...
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 13, 2017 12:48 PM | Tags: intermediate
Quick A: No write is triggered so no data race occurs.
Recently on SO:
why there is no data-race in the following case?
Data races are not static properties of your code. They are properties of the actual state of the program at execution time. So while that program could be in a state where the code would produce a data race, that's not the question.
The question is, given the state of the system, will the code cause a data race? And since the program is in a state such that neither thread will write to either variable, then the code will not cause a data race.
Data races aren't about what your code might do. It's about what they will do. Just as a function that takes a pointer isn't undefined behavior just because it uses the pointer without checking for NULL. It is only UB if someone passes a pointer that really is NULL.