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| | Maybe I'll be boring with this note, but again I need to write that this was another good year for C++! Here's a bunch of facts: Visual Studio 2015 was released with great support for C++14/17 and even more experimental features. Long-awaited GCC 5.0 was released at the beginning of the year.
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| | The guidance around function arguments and smart pointers is quite old, yet I still see it used incorrectly. In this post, we'll explore the guidance and the costs of not following the advice. C++ Core Guidelines make this point clear: F.7: For general use, take T* or T& arguments rather...
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| | Let's put C++17 in practice! One of the good ways to do it is to take part in a coding challenge. So together with Jonathan Boccara from Fluent C++ we invite you to participate in "The Expressive C++17 coding challenge". The Expressive C++17 coding challenge Jonathan made a few contests on his blog (for example this one), and I thought it might be fun to do something similar for C++17.
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| [AI summary] The provided text is a detailed excerpt from the C11 standard, specifically focusing on the C programming language's concurrency and synchronization mechanisms. It outlines the concepts of atomic operations, memory ordering, and the 'happens before' relationship, which are crucial for ensuring correct and predictable behavior in multi-threaded programs. The text also touches on environmental considerations, such as character sets and their representation in source and execution environments. The content is highly technical and intended for developers and language designers familiar with concurrent programming and low-level system interactions.