CppCast

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC. News Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers Removing an empty base class can break ABI Links Spack Spack on GitHub Spack Tutorial Spack Slack Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020 Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow. They first discuss some bugs Microsoft found using ASAN in open source projects, and new libraries. Then they talk to Marshall Clow, longtime maintainer of libc++, on his perspective on the C++ ABI, and why stability is important. News Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects RmlUI 4.0 Release Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities Meeting C++ 2021 Announced Links What is an ABI, and Why is Breaking it Bad? - Marshall Clow - CppCon 2020 Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Harald Achitz. They first discuss performance updates for debug builds coming in the next version of Visual Studio. Then they talk about Djinni, the cross platform language binding generator tool initially developed by Dropbox that is now being supported by the C++ Mobile Development community. News 2x-3x Performance Improvements for Debug Builds Vcpkg site now has search Should we break ABI is the wrong question Links Djinni Djinni on GitHub Mobile C++ Slack C++ User Groups of Sweden C++ Community Organizers Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Loïc Joly from SonarSource. They first discuss compiler updates in GCC and MSVC as well as survey results of most used C++ features. Then they talk to Loïc about the SonarSource static analysis tools for C++, what sorts of bugs they discover, and what goes into creating a new analysis rule. News VS 2019 STL is C++20 feature complete GCC 11.1 Released Meeting C++ survey results: the most popular C++ standard features Links SonarSource The NeverEnding Story of writing a rule for argument passing in C++ Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by JeanHeyd Meneide. They first discuss alternative operators in C++, upcoming virtual conferences and papers in the April ISO mailing. Then they talk to JeanHeyd about his work on the C and C++ committees, including embed, defer and more. News Just discovered C++ has keywords 'and'/'or'/'not' etc. Pure Virtual C++ April Mailing Links Defer Mechanism for C: The Movie p1967 Preprocessor embed - Binary Resource Inclusion p0052 Generic Scope Guard and RAII Wrapper for the Standard Library No Us Without You - elifdef and elifndef CoSy Tech Con Sponsors Incredibuild

Rob and Jason are joined by Eugene Sandulenko. They first discuss the announcement of Visual Studio 2022 and Facebook open sourcing a new machine learning library. Then they talk to Eugene Sandulenko all about ScummVM, how the project got started and more. News Visual Studio 2022 coming this summer Flashlight - a C++ standalone library for machine learning open sourced by Facebook 2021 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" Links ScummVM Sponsors Incredibuild

Rob and Jason are joined by David Millington from Embarcadero. They first discuss a blog post on Thread Sanitizer and a very unique implementation of unique_ptr. Then they talk to David Millington from Embarcadero about C++ Builder, it's history and the state of the tool today. Including some of its extensions built into their version of Clang. News Eliminating Data Races in Firefox Mathematical constants in C++20 NFT backed implementation of std::unique_ptr Links C++Builder N1384 - PME: Properties, Methods and Events N1600 - C++/CLI Properties N1615 - C++ Properties -- a Library Solution Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Nikolai Wuttke. They first discuss a blog post series from Raymond Chen on coroutines and the upcoming pure virtual C++ conference. Then they talk to Nikolai Wuttke about Rigel Engine, a modern C++ reimplementation of Duke Nukem II. News C++23: -> and :: to be replaced by . operator C++ coroutines: The mental model for coroutine promises Mutabah's Rust Compiler Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference Links Rigel Engine on GitHub Play Rigel Engine online Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community. News Freestanding avr-libstdc++ Calc.exe is now open source Cmake 3.20.0 available for download ISO C++ March Mailing Links javidx9 - One Lone Coder YouTube Channel javidx9 - Twitch Channel One Lone Coder Community Sponsors C++ Builder

Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Gallego. They first discuss blog posts from Visual C++ on Intellisense updates and a tutorial for programming Starcraft AI. Then they talk to Alex Gallego about Red Panda, the event streaming platform written in C++ that's compatible with the Kafka API. Episode Transcripts PVS-Studio Episode Transcripts News MTuner Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019 STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions Links Vectorized.io RedPanda on GitHub The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast! Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables