C++17 In Detail - Print Version!

Last week was an important milestone for my book: it got a print version available at Amazon! In this post, I’ll share some details behind the event and the plans.

C++ Links #36 - How to start with modern C++, Concepts & Books!

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 6st and 13th September 2019.

Today you will find links to an article about how to implement StringConvertible concept, how to get started with Modern C++, an article about issues with C++20 Ranges, new books and many other!

C++ Links #35 Myths about C++ good practices, raw string literals

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 31st August and 6th September 2019.

Today you will find links to a video about raw string literals, myths about C++ good practices, a Ranges library on GPU and more.

New new() - The C++17's Alignment Parameter for Operator new()

Last week’s article about smaller C++17 features mentioned updated operator new() that handles non-standard alignment of objects. How does it work? Can you use it to ask for arbitrary alignments? Let’s try some code and have a closer look.

C++ Links #34 - new new(), bind_front, SFINAE & AWS

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 16th and 24th August 2019.

Today you will find links new operator new, bind_front implementation, SFINAE techniques and much more.

C++ Links #33 - Parallel Algorithms, Smaller Features, Pipes & Dropbox

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 9th and 16th August 2019.

Today you will find links to a list of smaller C++17 features, a free book about Intel TBB and parallel programming, why Dropbox is moving away from C++ and many more!

17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features

When you see an article about new C++ features, most of the time you’ll see a description of major elements. Looking at C++17, there are a lot of posts (including articles from this blog) about structured bindings, filesystem, parallel algorithms, if constexpr, std::optional, std::variant… and other prominent C++17 additions.

But how about those smaller parts? Library or language improvements that didn’t require decades to standardise or violent “battles” at the ISO meetings.

In this article, I’ll show you 17 smaller C++17 things that will improve your code.

C++ Links #32 - QT6, How to Fix C++ and what's Debugging in C++

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 2nd and 9th August 2019.

Today you will find links to ideas on how to Fix C++, how to bring more performance for SIMD math library with C++17, how QT 6 will look like, and more.

C++ Links #31 - bugs in Bullet Engine and C++20

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 27th July and 2nd August 2019.

Today you will find links to Bugs in Game Engines, articles about C++14 and C++20, debugging move techniques, hot to break RAII and more.

Moved or Not Moved - That Is the Question!

C++11 brought Move Semantics. Since then we have extra capabilities to write faster code, support movable-only types, but also more headaches :). At least I have, especially when trying to understand the rules related to that concept. What’s more, we also have copy elision, which is a very common optimisation (and even mandatory in several cases in C++17). If you create an object based on another one (like a return value, or assignment), how do you know if that was copied or moved?

In this article I’ll show you two ways how to determine the status of a new object - copied, moved or copy-elision-ed. Let’s start!

C++ Links #30 - Contracts Removed from C++20!

Welcome to new C++ Links - most relevant and useful articles, podcasts and videos that happen between 19th and 26th of July 2019.

Today you will find links to Cologne Trip reports, where the final shape of C++20 was formulated! And then you’ll also read about constant globals, __has_include and some tools updates.

Improve Multiplatform Code With __has_include and Feature Test Macros

Two weeks ago, I showed you a sample that can detect if a function has a given overload. The example revolved around std::from_chars - low-level conversion routine for C++17. In the example, some “heavy” template patterns helped me to write the final code (most notably std::void_t and if constexpr). Maybe there are some other techniques we can use to check if a feature is available or not?

Today I’d like to have a look at __has_include and discuss the upcoming feature test macros that we’ll have in C++20.

Five Awesome C++ Papers for Cologne ISO Meeting

Today is the start day of Summer C++ISO meeting, this time in Cologne, Germany! This is the “feature-complete” meeting for C++20. It’s the last time we’ll see some new elements that are merged into the working draft.

Let’s see what’s already in C++20 and let’s have a look at some smaller, but very handy proposals that might get into the standard. This is similar to article that I did for Kona and San Diego Meetings.

How To Detect Function Overloads in C++17, std::from_chars Example

The problem: a library function offers several overloads, but depending on the implementation/compiler, some of the overloads are not available. How to check the existence of an overload? And how to provide a safe fallback?

In this article, I’ll show you a background “theory” and one case - std::from_chars that exposes full support for numbers or only integer support (in GCC, Clang).