Discussing the state of the art in C++ projects
Large- and medium-sized C++ projects often suffer from long build times. We can distinguish these two scenarios: Scratch build After pulling in the latest changes from upstream, or after a major refactoring that affects central headers, a lot of source files need to be rebuilt. This can take a long time. To a large extent this is caused by the … Read More
LLVM 5.0.0 was already released back in September, but I still would like to mention a couple interesting things I encountered while using clang 5. This will not cover all the new things there are, please check the release notes of the respective LLVM components for that. More aggressive optimizations I could not find a mention of this in the release … Read More
When C, C++ and the Internet were conceived, they were mostly used by academics. Attacks on computer systems were rare, since there was not much incentive to it, so there did not have to be a focus on security and robustness. Nowadays these designs haunt us: The past two decades have uncovered a lot of security vulnerabilities in C/C++ programs, … Read More