access-control (5)
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Implementation divergence with
friend(2019-09-10) classical-polymorphism implementation-divergence metaprogramming
adventure (18)
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allocators (12)
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Boost.Interprocess, and
sg14::inplace_vector(2024-08-23) data-structures proposal relocatability sg14 stl-classic -
Quuxplusone/SG14now hasinplace_vector(2023-10-20) library-design proposal relocatability sg14 standard-library-trivia - P1144 PMR koans (2023-06-03) implementation-divergence relocatability value-semantics varna-2023 wg21
- A not-so-quick introduction to the C++ allocator model (2023-06-02) relocatability value-semantics
- The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) copy-elision coroutines rant wg21
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Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal rant wg21 -
What does the Standard mean by “
_traits”? (2018-07-14) customization-points library-design metaprogramming templates wg21 - My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) conferences cppnow relocatability
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Pointer to raw memory?
T*. (2018-06-08) c++-style library-design rant standard-library-trivia -
<memory_resource>for libc++ (2018-06-05) library-design llvm - My C++Now 2018 talks are up (2018-06-04) conferences cppnow relocatability
antipatterns (10)
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Why don’t compilers warn for
const T f()? (2024-10-07) c++-style compiler-diagnostics llvm -
volatilemeans it really happens (2022-01-28) c++-learner-track concurrency slogans -
constall the things? (2022-01-23) c++-style holy-wars pitfalls -
Underseeding
mt19937; introducingxoshiro256ss(2021-11-23) pearls random-numbers -
Don’t reopen
namespace std(2021-10-27) c++-style cppcon sd-8-adjacent slogans templates -
An
iteratorIS-NOT-Aconst_iterator(2021-07-14) implementation-divergence library-design stl-classic - The “array size constant” antipattern (2020-08-06) c++-style
- The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) blog-roundup c++-learner-track c++-style slogans war-stories
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Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
const_iterator(2018-12-01) c++-style constructors library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic -
The “
unsignedfor value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) c++-style rant undefined-behavior
argument-dependent-lookup (20)
- Two more musings on Clang diagnostics (2022-05-05) compiler-diagnostics hidden-friend-idiom llvm templates
- To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) c++-style customization-points library-design name-lookup paradigm-shift
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What if
vector<T>::iteratorwere justT*? (2022-03-03) implementation-divergence library-design llvm stl-classic -
operator<=>doesn’t obsolete the hidden friend idiom (2021-10-22) c++-style hidden-friend-idiom operator-spaceship stl-classic -
What
=deletemeans (2021-10-17) c++-learner-track library-design - Implementation divergence on swapping bools within vectors (2021-06-27) hidden-friend-idiom implementation-divergence stl-classic templates
- Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) cpplang-slack library-design metaprogramming
- How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) c++-learner-track name-lookup namespaces
- An example of the Barton–Nackman trick (2020-12-09) cpplang-slack hidden-friend-idiom stl-classic templates
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What is the
std::swaptwo-step? (2020-07-11) c++-learner-track library-design wg21-folkloristics - ADL can interfere even with uglified names (2019-09-26) pitfalls standard-library-trivia
- What is ADL? (2019-04-26) c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics
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How
hana::type<T>“disables ADL” (2019-04-09) standard-library-trivia - ADL insanity (2019-04-08)
- WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) customization-points pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
- Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) llvm proposal
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- Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) customization-points hyperrogue pitfalls sd-8-adjacent war-stories
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attributes (7)
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Should
std::expectedbe[[nodiscard]]? (2024-12-08) exception-handling nodiscard proposal - How my papers did at Kona (2023-11-12) exception-handling implicit-move initializer-list kona-2023 lambdas library-design proposal relocatability stl-classic value-semantics wg21
- Guard nouns or guard verbs? (2023-11-11) concurrency exception-handling kona-2023 library-design mailing-list-quotes proposal
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nodiscardphilosophies (2019-01-25) compiler-diagnostics library-design nodiscard - Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) copy-elision pitfalls
- The Ignorable Attributes Rule (2018-05-15) language-design wg21-folkloristics
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[[trivial_abi]]101 (2018-05-02) copy-elision llvm sg14
benchmarks (14)
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noexceptaffects libstdc++’sunordered_set(2024-08-16) data-structures exception-handling standard-library-trivia stl-classic triviality - Sorting at compile time, part 2 (2024-02-20) compile-time-performance constexpr metaprogramming ranges
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Sorting
integer_sequenceat compile time (2024-02-19) compile-time-performance constexpr metaprogramming ranges -
Benchmarking Clang’s
-fbuiltin-std-forward(2022-12-24) compile-time-performance cpplang-slack library-design llvm - Bit-vector manipulations in standard C++ (2022-11-05) implementation-divergence llvm standard-library-trivia stl-classic
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unordered_multiset’s API affects its big-O (2022-06-23) data-structures library-design standard-library-trivia stl-classic -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires, part 2 (2021-09-14) compile-time-performance concepts llvm metaprogramming -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires(2021-09-04) compile-time-performance concepts llvm metaprogramming -
Don’t blindly prefer
emplace_backtopush_back(2021-03-03) c++-learner-track compile-time-performance move-semantics pitfalls - The abstraction penalty for wide integer math on x86-64 (2020-02-13) llvm sufficiently-smart-compiler
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MapViewcan be faster thanMapRef(2019-05-27) cppnow library-design parameter-only-types -
Quick and unscientific
trivially_relocatablebenchmark (2019-02-12) flat-containers kona-2019 relocatability - The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) compile-time-performance hyperrogue initializer-list pitfalls war-stories
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std::priority_queueis missing an operation (2018-04-27) data-structures library-design proposal
blog-roundup (42)
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- Andries Brouwer on the OOM killer (2024-08-22) mailing-list-quotes sre
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My muscle-memory
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- Blog roundup: U+, Bloomfield, Stuka, Gino (2023-09-16) science today-i-learned typography
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- Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) concepts etymology jokes templates
- Thoughts on “Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?” (2020-12-27) morality science
- The Box of Delights (2020-12-27) celebration-of-mind litclub weird-fiction
- Site reliability engineering at Ardeer; eyewitnesses to Hiroshima (2020-10-17) old-shit sre
- Conway’s Soldiers (2020-10-17) puzzles
- Grab bag (2020-10-12) cpplang-slack us-politics
- September blog roundup (2020-09-26)
- What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) litclub morality movies us-politics
- The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns c++-learner-track c++-style slogans war-stories
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Folding over
operator=(2020-05-07) order-of-evaluation variadic-templates - The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) math paradigm-shift
- “Myths about /dev/urandom” and “What Is JavaScript Made Of?” (2020-02-09) random-numbers
- De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) etymology litclub memes old-shit
- Sorrows and So You Want to Be a Wizard (2019-11-30) litclub
- What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) litclub morality old-shit sre
- C++Now video tidbits (2019-07-02) cppnow
- Fork considered harmful; paint splatters considered Perl (2019-04-13) paradigm-shift
- Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) class-template-argument-deduction compiler-diagnostics llvm pitfalls
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- Quantum Computing for the Determined (2018-08-05) math science
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- Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) jokes math puzzles
- Broken Koans (2018-06-30) litclub
- Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) copy-elision move-semantics today-i-learned
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- Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) esolang knuth typography
- Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) coroutines exception-handling language-design paradigm-shift
board-games (21)
- Mathematical golf (2023-03-23) clement-wood math old-shit puzzles
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- Antisocial Homeworlds, and a solitaire challenge (2021-04-04) homeworlds puzzles
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- Homeworlds Puzzle: Mercury in Retrograde (2020-10-28) homeworlds puzzles
- Homeworlds Puzzle: Burnt Umber (2020-10-25) homeworlds puzzles
- Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind math puzzles web
- Solo-player rules for Colossal Cave: The Board Game (2020-10-02) adventure
- Phantoms vs Phantoms (Geister) (2020-08-22) playable-games web
- Homeworlds Puzzle: The Prestige (2020-06-16) homeworlds puzzles
- Homeworlds Puzzle: War Games (2020-05-30) homeworlds puzzles
- Homeworlds Puzzle: Mini Doomsday Machine (2020-05-29) homeworlds puzzles web
- Connect Fifteen (2020-05-03)
- The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) constructors initialization language-design rant
- Homeworlds: The Yellowbird Mistake, Part II (2018-09-15) homeworlds
- Homeworlds: The Yellowbird Mistake (2018-09-10) homeworlds
- Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) adventure digital-antiquaria knuth
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- Hat-game strategies in Hanabi (2018-03-29)
c++-learner-track (34)
- Essays on Modern C++ released (2025-03-30) litclub training typography
- Name lookup in multiple base classes (2024-04-17) classical-polymorphism customization-points name-lookup
- Two kinds of function template parameters (2023-12-17) c++-style sd-8-adjacent templates
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Just how
constexpris C++20’sstd::string? (2023-09-08) constexpr cpplang-slack library-design - Always read the first error message first (2023-01-21) compiler-diagnostics
- Copy semantics, per Plato’s Sophist (2022-12-15) old-shit value-semantics
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Refactoring with
=delete(2022-11-11) overload-resolution war-stories - Prefer core-language features over library facilities (2022-10-16) c++-style concepts coroutines rant
- What is the “vector pessimization”? (2022-08-26) exception-handling move-semantics pitfalls stl-classic
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voidversus[[noreturn]](2022-06-29) cpplang-slack litclub - C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization has some downsides (2022-06-03) constructors cpplang-slack initialization pitfalls
- “Universal reference” or “forwarding reference”? (2022-02-02) cpplang-slack holy-wars memes
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volatilemeans it really happens (2022-01-28) antipatterns concurrency slogans -
Three reasons to pass
std::string_viewby value (2021-11-09) c++-style library-design parameter-only-types -
What
=deletemeans (2021-10-17) argument-dependent-lookup library-design -
static constexpr unsigned longis C++’s “lovely little old French whittling knife” (2021-04-03) c++-style linguistics -
Don’t blindly prefer
emplace_backtopush_back(2021-03-03) benchmarks compile-time-performance move-semantics pitfalls - What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) adventure hyperrogue preprocessor
- It’s not always obvious when tail-call optimization is allowed (2021-01-09) implementation-divergence
- How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup name-lookup namespaces
- Arrays aren’t pointers (2020-11-25) memes typography
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Why do I get a linker error with
static constandvalue_or? (2020-09-19) cppcon pitfalls war-stories -
What is the
std::swaptwo-step? (2020-07-11) argument-dependent-lookup library-design wg21-folkloristics - How to erase from an STL container (2020-07-08) library-design rant standard-library-trivia stl-classic
- The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns blog-roundup c++-style slogans war-stories
- Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-style language-design library-design rant slogans
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When is
*xalso&x? (2020-03-31) lambdas slogans - Ways C++ prevents you from doing X (2020-03-17) access-control pitfalls
- Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-style modules slogans
- A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) cpplang-slack wg21-folkloristics
- What is ADL? (2019-04-26) argument-dependent-lookup wg21-folkloristics
- What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) library-design metaprogramming type-erasure
- Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) library-design metaprogramming parameter-only-types pitfalls slogans
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constis a contract (2019-01-03) c++-style move-semantics slogans
c++-style (54)
- The Elements of Programming Style (1974) (2024-11-27) blog-roundup litclub rant slogans
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Why don’t compilers warn for
const T f()? (2024-10-07) antipatterns compiler-diagnostics llvm - Two kinds of function template parameters (2023-12-17) c++-learner-track sd-8-adjacent templates
- The style guide must say how to do what you mustn’t do (2023-08-11) compiler-diagnostics language-design library-design nodiscard
- A small C++ meme dump (2023-06-17) concepts cpplang-slack memes move-semantics relocatability stl-classic varna-2023
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Make
operator<=>ignore a data member (2023-06-05) operator-spaceship paradigm-shift pearls -
Don’t
forwardthings that aren’t forwarding references (2023-05-27) -
Polymorphic types and
-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor(2023-05-05) classical-polymorphism compiler-diagnostics cpplang-slack llvm -
Most C++ constructors should be
explicit(2023-04-08) constructors initialization initializer-list library-design - The jargon treadmill (2023-02-04) etymology linguistics rant
- Prefer core-language features over library facilities (2022-10-16) c++-learner-track concepts coroutines rant
- To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points library-design name-lookup paradigm-shift
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constall the things? (2022-01-23) antipatterns holy-wars pitfalls -
view_interfacetypes are boolean-testable (2021-12-06) ranges today-i-learned -
Three reasons to pass
std::string_viewby value (2021-11-09) c++-learner-track library-design parameter-only-types -
Don’t reopen
namespace std(2021-10-27) antipatterns cppcon sd-8-adjacent slogans templates -
operator<=>doesn’t obsolete the hidden friend idiom (2021-10-22) argument-dependent-lookup hidden-friend-idiom operator-spaceship stl-classic - Book Review: Fedor Pikus’ The Art of Writing Efficient Programs (2021-10-19) litclub
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static constexpr unsigned longis C++’s “lovely little old French whittling knife” (2021-04-03) c++-learner-track linguistics -
Tips re
operator()(2020-12-12) lambdas metaprogramming rant - A very short war story on too much overloading (2020-10-11) war-stories
- Inheritance is for sharing an interface (and so is overloading) (2020-10-09) classical-polymorphism metaprogramming templates
- Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) compiler-diagnostics language-design rant
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-Wrange-loop-bind-referenceandauto&&(2020-08-26) compiler-diagnostics lifetime-extension llvm - The “array size constant” antipattern (2020-08-06) antipatterns
- An obvious guideline on function-call style (2020-07-23)
- The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns blog-roundup c++-learner-track slogans war-stories
- Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track language-design library-design rant slogans
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c_str-correctness (2020-03-20) parameter-only-types -
How to replace
__FILE__withsource_locationin a logging macro (2020-02-12) pearls preprocessor - Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-learner-track modules slogans
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constis a contract (2019-01-03) c++-learner-track move-semantics slogans -
for (auto&& elt : range)Still Always Works (2018-12-27) ranges -
for (auto&& elt : range)Always Works (2018-12-15) - Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) class-template-argument-deduction library-design pitfalls sd-8-adjacent slogans
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Don’t put
-Weverythingin your build flags (2018-12-06) compiler-diagnostics llvm -
Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
const_iterator(2018-12-01) antipatterns constructors library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic -
An argument pro liberal use of
[[nodiscard]](2018-11-06) nodiscard pitfalls - C++2a idioms for library feature detection (2018-10-26) feature-test-macros
- Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) concepts cppcon paradigm-shift
- Data race when catching by non-const reference (2018-09-16) copy-elision exception-handling
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The
Automacro (2018-08-11) lambdas memes pearls preprocessor - The Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering (2018-06-18) memes
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Pointer to raw memory?
T*. (2018-06-08) allocators library-design rant standard-library-trivia -
In praise of
make_unique(2018-05-26) smart-pointers standard-library-trivia - Hiding template parameters from casual users (2018-05-09) templates
- Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) pearls preprocessor war-stories
- The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) contracts undefined-behavior wg21-folkloristics
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On lifetime extension and
decltype(auto)(2018-04-05) lifetime-extension move-semantics - Parameter-only types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) paradigm-shift parameter-only-types
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std::string_viewis a parameter-only type (2018-03-27) lifetime-extension paradigm-shift parameter-only-types pitfalls - Zoological case naming (2018-03-16) memes naming
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Using
future_errorfor control flow (2018-03-13) concurrency exception-handling -
The “
unsignedfor value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) antipatterns rant undefined-behavior
castlequest (7)
- Nifty notebooks, and Almazar (2021-05-13) adventure digital-antiquaria
- An interview with Arthur O’Dwyer (2021-05-11) adventure digital-antiquaria help-wanted
- Observations on Castlequest’s code (2021-03-21) adventure digital-antiquaria
- Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 2 (2021-03-20) digital-antiquaria
- Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 1 (2021-03-19) adventure digital-antiquaria
- Making Castlequest compilable (2021-03-11) digital-antiquaria
- Castlequest exhumed! (2021-03-09) adventure digital-antiquaria
celebration-of-mind (18)
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- Kafka, math jokes, triangle dissection (2022-03-24) jokes litclub math
- Rolling 2d6 with playing cards (2021-10-21) etymology math puzzles today-i-learned
- Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-10-16) conferences math
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- The Box of Delights (2020-12-27) blog-roundup litclub weird-fiction
- Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games math puzzles web
- Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) math pretty-pictures typography web
- Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure knuth litclub math puzzles web
cellular-automata (3)
- Martin Gardner Scientific American Index; Rule 110 challenge (2024-10-21) celebration-of-mind
- The Star Wars cellular automaton (2020-06-29) esolang pretty-pictures web
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class-template-argument-deduction (9)
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A deduction guide for
Foo(Ts..., Ts...)(2023-05-26) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence metaprogramming variadic-templates -
Replacing
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Thoughts on
-Wctad-maybe-unsupported(2022-10-07) compiler-diagnostics llvm proposal rant -
Beware CTAD on
reverse_iterator(2022-08-02) pitfalls stl-classic war-stories -
Holiday fun with
template<class>andtemplate<typename>(2019-12-27) implementation-divergence rant templates -
Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators library-design proposal rant wg21 - Measuring adoption of C++17 and CTAD in real codebases (2019-01-16) llvm science
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classical-polymorphism (16)
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How
boost::is_base_ofmatches private and/or ambiguous bases (2023-10-06) metaprogramming type-traits - Polymorphic types aren’t trivially relocatable (2023-06-24) proposal relocatability varna-2023
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Polymorphic types and
-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor(2023-05-05) c++-style compiler-diagnostics cpplang-slack llvm - Techniques for post-facto multiple inheritance (2022-12-01) library-design templates type-erasure
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A hole in Clang’s
-Wsuggest-override(2021-02-19) compiler-diagnostics llvm - When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (2021-02-15) implementation-divergence sufficiently-smart-compiler
- “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) concurrency pitfalls war-stories
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Classically polymorphic
visitreplaces some uses ofdynamic_cast(2020-09-29) metaprogramming templates variadic-templates war-stories - Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) cpplang-slack rant
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Implementation divergence with
friend(2019-09-10) access-control implementation-divergence metaprogramming -
Remember the
ifstream(2018-11-26) concepts library-design pitfalls rant
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Constexpr
factors_of(2025-03-14) constexpr cpplang-slack math - Sorting at compile time, part 2 (2024-02-20) benchmarks constexpr metaprogramming ranges
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Sorting
integer_sequenceat compile time (2024-02-19) benchmarks constexpr metaprogramming ranges - Fun with quadratic pack-expansions (2023-08-05) constexpr cpplang-slack lambdas metaprogramming variadic-templates
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Benchmarking Clang’s
-fbuiltin-std-forward(2022-12-24) benchmarks cpplang-slack library-design llvm -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires, part 2 (2021-09-14) benchmarks concepts llvm metaprogramming -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires(2021-09-04) benchmarks concepts llvm metaprogramming -
Don’t blindly prefer
emplace_backtopush_back(2021-03-03) benchmarks c++-learner-track move-semantics pitfalls -
37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to
std::function(2019-01-06) hyperrogue sg14 type-erasure war-stories - Template metaprogramming: Iteration is better than recursion (2018-07-23) metaprogramming templates variadic-templates
- SCARY metafunctions (2018-07-09) library-design metaprogramming
- The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) benchmarks hyperrogue initializer-list pitfalls war-stories
compiler-diagnostics (22)
- Better diagnostics through operator-precedence parsing (2025-02-27) language-design pearls
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Field-testing
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Why don’t compilers warn for
const T f()? (2024-10-07) antipatterns c++-style llvm - The style guide must say how to do what you mustn’t do (2023-08-11) c++-style language-design library-design nodiscard
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Polymorphic types and
-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor(2023-05-05) c++-style classical-polymorphism cpplang-slack llvm - Always read the first error message first (2023-01-21) c++-learner-track
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Thoughts on
-Wctad-maybe-unsupported(2022-10-07) class-template-argument-deduction llvm proposal rant - Two more musings on Clang diagnostics (2022-05-05) argument-dependent-lookup hidden-friend-idiom llvm templates
- A minimally interesting typo-bug (2022-01-29)
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Another
requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence pitfalls -
C’s removal of
getscould have been done better (2021-03-12) war-stories -
A hole in Clang’s
-Wsuggest-override(2021-02-19) classical-polymorphism llvm - How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control implementation-divergence llvm proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
- Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style language-design rant
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-Wrange-loop-bind-referenceandauto&&(2020-08-26) c++-style lifetime-extension llvm -
nodiscardphilosophies (2019-01-25) attributes library-design nodiscard - Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction llvm pitfalls
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Don’t put
-Weverythingin your build flags (2018-12-06) c++-style llvm - Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) concepts metaprogramming pearls templates
- Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup llvm pitfalls proposal
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Attribute
noexcept_verify(2018-06-12) exception-handling proposal - A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) memes pitfalls this-should-exist
concepts (37)
- A small C++ meme dump (2023-06-17) c++-style cpplang-slack memes move-semantics relocatability stl-classic varna-2023
- Prefer core-language features over library facilities (2022-10-16) c++-learner-track c++-style coroutines rant
- Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming pitfalls ranges
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Is
pathconvertible tostring_view?: a war story (2021-11-21) llvm metaprogramming overload-resolution pitfalls war-stories - A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence implicit-move
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A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires, part 2 (2021-09-14) benchmarks compile-time-performance llvm metaprogramming -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires(2021-09-04) benchmarks compile-time-performance llvm metaprogramming -
Another
requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics cpplang-slack implementation-divergence pitfalls - Tag dispatch versus concept overloading (2021-06-07) metaprogramming templates
- A Night of Serious Drinking and operationalism (2021-06-04) litclub science
- Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) blog-roundup etymology jokes templates
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decltypeof a non-static member (2021-02-10) implementation-divergence name-lookup -
SFINAE and
E1.E2(2020-11-01) implementation-divergence templates - Concepts can’t do quantifiers (2020-08-10)
- SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming standard-library-trivia templates
- Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) conferences cppcon cpplang-slack
- Concept definition-checking and its woes (2019-07-22)
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Announcing
Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) coroutines ranges web - P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) implementation-divergence metaprogramming templates wg21
- This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) customization-points library-design metaprogramming
- Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) kona-2019 library-design rant wg21
- Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) implementation-divergence metaprogramming templates variadic-templates
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requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) language-design rant -
Why do we require
requires requires? (2019-01-15) - Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) library-design move-semantics type-erasure
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Remember the
ifstream(2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism library-design pitfalls rant - Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) c++-style cppcon paradigm-shift
- A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) metaprogramming preprocessor rant
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- Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) metaprogramming pitfalls
- The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) metaprogramming rant
- Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) compiler-diagnostics metaprogramming pearls templates
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- Thoughts on “sanely move-assignable” (2018-07-06) relocatability
- Thoughts on Concepts, P0745, and P1079 (2018-05-28) wg21
- A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) constructors rant science
- Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) constructors naming rant templates value-semantics wg21
concurrency (9)
- Guard nouns or guard verbs? (2023-11-11) attributes exception-handling kona-2023 library-design mailing-list-quotes proposal
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Replacing
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volatilemeans it really happens (2022-01-28) antipatterns c++-learner-track slogans - “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) classical-polymorphism pitfalls war-stories
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std::once_flagis a glass hill (2020-10-23) cppcon litclub standard-library-trivia - Why doesn’t C++ have networking support? (2019-10-09) library-design wg21
- “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” (2019-06-06) rant science
- Contra locales (2018-04-30) library-design mailing-list-quotes
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Using
future_errorfor control flow (2018-03-13) c++-style exception-handling
conferences (22)
- The 2024 Google Summer of Code idea lists are out (2024-03-05) relocatability
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- C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2021, Game Two (2021-10-29) cppcon
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- Back to Basics at CppCon 2021 (2021-10-21) cppcon
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- “Modern STL Programming” at C++ On Sea 2021 (2021-05-17) cpp-on-sea stl-classic training
- Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-04-15) celebration-of-mind math
- C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020, Game Two (2020-09-18) cppcon
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- “Classic STL” at CppCon 2020 (2020-09-12) cppcon stl-classic training
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- Back to Basics at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-12) cppcon
- My C++Now 2019 talks are captioned (2019-06-25) cppnow relocatability
- “The STL From Scratch” is back! (2019-06-21) cppcon
- Trivially Relocatable versus Destructive Movable (2018-09-28) cppcon relocatability
- CppCon 2018 Early Bird Registration closes on July 7th (2018-07-02) cppcon
- My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) allocators cppnow relocatability
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constexpr (10)
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Constexpr
factors_of(2025-03-14) compile-time-performance cpplang-slack math - Sorting at compile time, part 2 (2024-02-20) benchmarks compile-time-performance metaprogramming ranges
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Sorting
integer_sequenceat compile time (2024-02-19) benchmarks compile-time-performance metaprogramming ranges -
constexpr std::stringupdate (2023-10-13) cpplang-slack library-design llvm -
Just how
constexpris C++20’sstd::string? (2023-09-08) c++-learner-track cpplang-slack library-design - Fun with quadratic pack-expansions (2023-08-05) compile-time-performance cpplang-slack lambdas metaprogramming variadic-templates
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An example where
inline constexprmakes a difference (2022-07-08) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence llvm standard-library-trivia - Test an expression for constexpr-friendliness (2022-01-04) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence metaprogramming
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The
FORCE_CONSTEXPRmacro (2018-08-07) pearls preprocessor sufficiently-smart-compiler - Perennial impossibilities of C++ (2018-06-12) language-design metaprogramming
constructors (10)
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How the STL uses
explicit(2024-06-25) initialization library-design st-louis-2024 standard-library-trivia -
Fun with
flat_map’s non-explicit constructors (2023-04-28) cpplang-slack flat-containers initialization library-design standard-library-trivia -
Most C++ constructors should be
explicit(2023-04-08) c++-style initialization initializer-list library-design - C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization has some downsides (2022-06-03) c++-learner-track cpplang-slack initialization pitfalls
- What is the virtual table table? (2019-09-30) classical-polymorphism
- The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) board-games initialization language-design rant
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Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
const_iterator(2018-12-01) antipatterns c++-style library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic - Is your constructor an object-factory or a type-conversion? (2018-06-21) initialization library-design rant
- A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) concepts rant science
- Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts naming rant templates value-semantics wg21
contracts (2)
- Comparison categories for narrow-contract comparators (2018-08-07) concepts operator-spaceship undefined-behavior
- The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) c++-style undefined-behavior wg21-folkloristics
copy-elision (11)
- Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) cpplang-slack implicit-move pitfalls proposal
- Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) initializer-list lifetime-extension llvm proposal
- Thoughts on “The C++ Rvalue Lifetime Disaster” (2020-03-04) move-semantics paradigm-shift
- The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators coroutines rant wg21
- Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) attributes pitfalls
- “Perfect backwarding” (2018-09-25) metaprogramming
- Data race when catching by non-const reference (2018-09-16) c++-style exception-handling
- Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) blog-roundup move-semantics today-i-learned
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[[trivial_abi]]101 (2018-05-02) attributes llvm sg14 - Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) exception-handling move-semantics sufficiently-smart-compiler
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coroutines (11)
- Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and lamp-trolls (2023-01-10) knuth
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- Prefer core-language features over library facilities (2022-10-16) c++-learner-track c++-style concepts rant
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Precedence of a proposed
|>operator (2020-04-10) language-design proposal ranges wg21 - The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators copy-elision rant wg21
- C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) cpplang-slack parameter-only-types pitfalls
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Announcing
Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) concepts ranges web - In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) proposal wg21
- Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) metaprogramming ranges sufficiently-smart-compiler
- Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup exception-handling language-design paradigm-shift
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On
raiseversusthrow, and the Mandela Effect (2018-03-14) exception-handling
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- C++ On Sea 2021 schedule announced (2021-05-27) conferences training
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cppcon (25)
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Don’t reopen
namespace std(2021-10-27) antipatterns c++-style sd-8-adjacent slogans templates - Back to Basics at CppCon 2021 (2021-10-21) conferences
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The STL is more than
std::accumulate(2020-12-14) memes ranges rant stl-classic -
std::once_flagis a glass hill (2020-10-23) concurrency litclub standard-library-trivia -
Why do I get a linker error with
static constandvalue_or? (2020-09-19) c++-learner-track pitfalls war-stories - C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020, Game Two (2020-09-18) conferences
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A trivially copyable ticket for a
unique_ptr(2019-09-21) parameter-only-types relocatability smart-pointers - C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-21) conferences
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cpplang-slack (43)
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Constexpr
factors_of(2025-03-14) compile-time-performance constexpr math -
Why can’t I specialize
std::hashinside my own namespace? (2024-07-15) name-lookup proposal templates -
Fun with “deducing
this” lambdas (2024-01-23) lambdas name-lookup -
constexpr std::stringupdate (2023-10-13) constexpr library-design llvm -
Just how
constexpris C++20’sstd::string? (2023-09-08) c++-learner-track constexpr library-design - Fun with quadratic pack-expansions (2023-08-05) compile-time-performance constexpr lambdas metaprogramming variadic-templates
- A small C++ meme dump (2023-06-17) c++-style concepts memes move-semantics relocatability stl-classic varna-2023
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A deduction guide for
Foo(Ts..., Ts...)(2023-05-26) class-template-argument-deduction implementation-divergence metaprogramming variadic-templates -
Polymorphic types and
-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor(2023-05-05) c++-style classical-polymorphism compiler-diagnostics llvm -
Fun with
flat_map’s non-explicit constructors (2023-04-28) constructors flat-containers initialization library-design standard-library-trivia -
Iterating and inverting a const
views::filter(2023-03-13) pearls ranges -
Benchmarking Clang’s
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An example where
inline constexprmakes a difference (2022-07-08) constexpr implementation-divergence llvm standard-library-trivia -
voidversus[[noreturn]](2022-06-29) c++-learner-track litclub - C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization has some downsides (2022-06-03) c++-learner-track constructors initialization pitfalls
- PSA: ADL requires that unqualified lookup has found a function (2022-04-14) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points library-design name-lookup pitfalls standard-library-trivia
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TIL:
nullopt_tis not equality-comparable, butmonostateis (2022-03-07) ranges standard-library-trivia today-i-learned value-semantics - “Universal reference” or “forwarding reference”? (2022-02-02) c++-learner-track holy-wars memes
- Test an expression for constexpr-friendliness (2022-01-04) constexpr implementation-divergence metaprogramming
- Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) concepts implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming pitfalls ranges
- A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) concepts implementation-divergence implicit-move
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Another
requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics concepts implementation-divergence pitfalls - Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup library-design metaprogramming
- Overly interoperable libraries, part 2 (2021-05-22) implementation-divergence metaprogramming
- A metaprogramming puzzle: Overly interoperable libraries (2021-05-19) metaprogramming
- Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision implicit-move pitfalls proposal
- When your loop unroller works harder than your infinite loop detector (2021-02-26) memes
- An example of the Barton–Nackman trick (2020-12-09) argument-dependent-lookup hidden-friend-idiom stl-classic templates
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Loop variable may not be declared
static(2020-12-03) memes thread-local-storage -
Type-erased
UniquePrintableandPrintableRef(2020-11-24) pearls type-erasure -
while (auto x=y; z)(2020-10-28) language-design - Grab bag (2020-10-12) blog-roundup us-politics
- Left-folding and right-folding an arbitrary callable (2020-10-12) metaprogramming variadic-templates
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Hidden
reinterpret_casts (2020-01-22) pitfalls templates - A quirk of qualified member lookup (2020-01-11) implementation-divergence language-design name-lookup templates today-i-learned
- Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) classical-polymorphism rant
- Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible (2019-11-20) rant web
- Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) concepts conferences cppcon
- A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics
- C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) coroutines parameter-only-types pitfalls
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cppnow (14)
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Shifting objects by less than
sizeof(T)(2024-11-08) data-structures relocatability sg14 - Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) etymology library-design litclub naming old-shit
- Removing an empty base class can break ABI (2021-05-07) llvm standard-library-trivia
- Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too (2021-05-05) library-design rant standard-library-trivia
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P2266’s interaction with
decltype(auto)(2021-05-04) implicit-move proposal - C++Now 2020: A C++ Magic Trick (2020-05-04) parameter-only-types web
- C++Now video tidbits (2019-07-02) blog-roundup
- My C++Now 2019 talks are captioned (2019-06-25) conferences relocatability
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MapViewcan be faster thanMapRef(2019-05-27) benchmarks library-design parameter-only-types - MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) exception-handling move-semantics msvc pitfalls relocatability
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On
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customization-points (9)
- Name lookup in multiple base classes (2024-04-17) c++-learner-track classical-polymorphism name-lookup
- To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) argument-dependent-lookup c++-style library-design name-lookup paradigm-shift
- PSA: ADL requires that unqualified lookup has found a function (2022-04-14) argument-dependent-lookup cpplang-slack library-design name-lookup pitfalls standard-library-trivia
- This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts library-design metaprogramming
- WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
- C++ doesn’t know how to do customization points that aren’t operators (2018-08-23) operator-spaceship rant
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What does the Standard mean by “
_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators library-design metaprogramming templates wg21 - Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup hyperrogue pitfalls sd-8-adjacent war-stories
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data-structures (7)
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Shifting objects by less than
sizeof(T)(2024-11-08) cppnow relocatability sg14 -
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Should the compiler sometimes reject a
[[trivially_relocatable]]warrant? (2023-03-10) library-design relocatability wg21 -
while (auto x=y; z)(2020-10-28) cpplang-slack - Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style compiler-diagnostics rant
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Precedence of a proposed
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- Packs of packs (2019-02-11) kona-2019 metaprogramming variadic-templates
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requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) concepts rant - Perennial impossibilities of C++ (2018-06-12) constexpr metaprogramming
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When
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std::try_castand(const&&)=delete(2024-07-03) exception-handling smart-pointers st-louis-2024 -
How the STL uses
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- How my papers did at Kona (2023-11-12) attributes exception-handling implicit-move initializer-list kona-2023 lambdas proposal relocatability stl-classic value-semantics wg21
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Quuxplusone/SG14now hasinplace_vector(2023-10-20) allocators proposal relocatability sg14 standard-library-trivia -
constexpr std::stringupdate (2023-10-13) constexpr cpplang-slack llvm -
Just how
constexpris C++20’sstd::string? (2023-09-08) c++-learner-track constexpr cpplang-slack - Some C++20 ranges aren’t const-iterable (2023-08-13) pitfalls ranges
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Socrates on why there’s no
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Fun with
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std::formatfrom scratch, part 3 (2023-04-23) how-to std-format -
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std::formatfrom scratch, part 1 (2023-04-21) how-to std-format -
Most C++ constructors should be
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Should the compiler sometimes reject a
[[trivially_relocatable]]warrant? (2023-03-10) language-design relocatability wg21 - STL algorithms for trivial relocation (2023-03-03) relocatability stl-classic wg21
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Making
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Benchmarking Clang’s
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Replacing
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unordered_multiset’s API affects its big-O (2022-06-23) benchmarks data-structures standard-library-trivia stl-classic - To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) argument-dependent-lookup c++-style customization-points name-lookup paradigm-shift
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What if
vector<T>::iteratorwere justT*? (2022-03-03) argument-dependent-lookup implementation-divergence llvm stl-classic - Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence metaprogramming pitfalls ranges
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A note on
namespace __cpo(2021-12-07) hidden-friend-idiom llvm ranges war-stories -
A footnote on “Three reasons to pass
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Three reasons to pass
std::string_viewby value (2021-11-09) c++-learner-track c++-style parameter-only-types -
What
=deletemeans (2021-10-17) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track -
Don’t explicitly instantiate
stdtemplates (2021-08-06) pitfalls sd-8-adjacent - Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology litclub naming old-shit
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An
iteratorIS-NOT-Aconst_iterator(2021-07-14) antipatterns implementation-divergence stl-classic - Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup cpplang-slack metaprogramming
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What is the
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Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction proposal rant wg21 -
MapViewcan be faster thanMapRef(2019-05-27) benchmarks cppnow parameter-only-types -
On
function_refandstring_view(2019-05-10) cppnow parameter-only-types pitfalls type-erasure value-semantics - This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts customization-points metaprogramming
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The space of design choices for
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compressed_vector_traits(2019-02-16) metaprogramming -
C++ idiom of the day:
arrow_proxy(2019-02-06) flat-containers metaprogramming pearls - Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 rant wg21
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Contra P0429R6
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Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
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Remember the
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Case study: Making
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What does the Standard mean by “
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inplace_fooversusfixed_capacity_foo(2018-06-18) naming sg14 -
Pointer to raw memory?
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<memory_resource>for libc++ (2018-06-05) allocators llvm - View types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) parameter-only-types pitfalls sg14 wg21
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std::priority_queueis missing an operation (2018-04-27) benchmarks data-structures proposal - Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points memes templates
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On lifetime extension and
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llvm (42)
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Field-testing
-Wassign-to-class-rvalue(2024-12-13) compiler-diagnostics nodiscard proposal -
Why don’t compilers warn for
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constexpr std::stringupdate (2023-10-13) constexpr cpplang-slack library-design - How “static storage for initializers” did at Varna (2023-07-05) implementation-divergence initializer-list varna-2023
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Polymorphic types and
-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor(2023-05-05) c++-style classical-polymorphism compiler-diagnostics cpplang-slack -
Update on my trivial
swapprize offer (2023-03-04) relocatability -
Making
priority_queueandflat_setwork with move-only types (2023-03-01) flat-containers library-design move-semantics relocatability stl-classic - How my papers did at Issaquah (2023-02-17) implementation-divergence initializer-list relocatability sg14 wg21
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P1967
#embedand D2752 “Static storage forinitializer_list” are now on Compiler Explorer (2023-01-13) initializer-list parameter-only-types preprocessor proposal wg21 -
Benchmarking Clang’s
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Replacing
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Thoughts on
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Type-erased
InplaceUniquePrintablebenefits fromnoexcept(2022-07-30) exception-handling pearls relocatability type-erasure -
An example where
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What if
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A note on
namespace __cpo(2021-12-07) hidden-friend-idiom library-design ranges war-stories -
Is
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std::spanshould have a converting constructor frominitializer_list(2021-10-03) initializer-list parameter-only-types proposal wg21 -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires, part 2 (2021-09-14) benchmarks compile-time-performance concepts metaprogramming -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires(2021-09-04) benchmarks compile-time-performance concepts metaprogramming - Field-testing P2266 “Simpler Implicit Move” (2021-08-07) implicit-move proposal
- Removing an empty base class can break ABI (2021-05-07) cppnow standard-library-trivia
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Optimizing
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A hole in Clang’s
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-Wrange-loop-bind-referenceandauto&&(2020-08-26) c++-style compiler-diagnostics lifetime-extension - Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision initializer-list lifetime-extension proposal
- The abstraction penalty for wide integer math on x86-64 (2020-02-13) benchmarks sufficiently-smart-compiler
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Don’t put
-Weverythingin your build flags (2018-12-06) c++-style compiler-diagnostics - Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) argument-dependent-lookup proposal
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<memory_resource>for libc++ (2018-06-05) allocators library-design -
[[trivial_abi]]101 (2018-05-02) attributes copy-elision sg14 - How to build LLVM from source (2018-04-16) how-to
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Contra
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Constexpr
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Bit patterns of
float(2021-09-05) how-to operator-spaceship pretty-pictures - Two counterintuitive results (2021-08-12) puzzles science
- Buddhabrot (2021-07-27) pretty-pictures
- Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-04-15) celebration-of-mind conferences
- Bubblesort, rocksort, and cocktail-shaker sort (2020-12-13) knuth
- Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games celebration-of-mind puzzles web
- Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind pretty-pictures typography web
- Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub morality puzzles us-politics
- The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) blog-roundup paradigm-shift
- Two approaches to secret sharing: math vs. blockchain (2020-02-12) esolang pearls
- Canonicalizing {0,1}-matrices with Nauty (2020-01-11)
- Wolves and Sheep, with tables (2020-01-10) puzzles
- Discrete Peaceful Encampments, with tables (2019-10-18) puzzles
- What is 8÷2(2+2)? (2019-08-01)
- A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) cellular-automata digital-antiquaria esolang pretty-pictures web
- Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) lego pretty-pictures science
- Notes on Prince Rupert’s Problem (2019-07-22) science today-i-learned
- Puzzle: Wolves and sheep (2019-04-17) puzzles
- README for my Peaceful Encampments visualizer (2019-03-18) puzzles web
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- Peaceful Encampments, round 2 (2019-01-21) puzzles web
- Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure celebration-of-mind knuth litclub puzzles web
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memes (21)
- Names of the tetrominoes (2025-04-19) celebration-of-mind etymology math
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- A small C++ meme dump (2023-06-17) c++-style concepts cpplang-slack move-semantics relocatability stl-classic varna-2023
- API design advice from Anakin and Obi-Wan (2022-12-17) cpplang-slack library-design
- “Universal reference” or “forwarding reference”? (2022-02-02) c++-learner-track cpplang-slack holy-wars
- When your loop unroller works harder than your infinite loop detector (2021-02-26) cpplang-slack
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The STL is more than
std::accumulate(2020-12-14) cppcon ranges rant stl-classic -
Loop variable may not be declared
static(2020-12-03) cpplang-slack thread-local-storage - Arrays aren’t pointers (2020-11-25) c++-learner-track typography
- Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Coronavirus Version) (2020-04-08) jokes music
- De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup etymology litclub old-shit
- Execution-agent-local storage (2018-11-14) rant thread-local-storage
- Pray-Mister-Babbage problems (2018-09-26) old-shit
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The
Automacro (2018-08-11) c++-style lambdas pearls preprocessor - Roll for member functions (2018-07-09) cpplang-slack
- The Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering (2018-06-18) c++-style
- A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) compiler-diagnostics pitfalls this-should-exist
- Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points library-design templates
- Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (2018-03-17)
- Zoological case naming (2018-03-16) c++-style naming
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West
const(2018-03-15) holy-wars
metaprogramming (54)
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A
priority_tag-like pattern for type-based metaprogramming (2024-07-07) templates type-traits - Types that falsely advertise trivial copyability (2024-05-15) implementation-divergence pitfalls proposal triviality type-traits
- Sorting at compile time, part 2 (2024-02-20) benchmarks compile-time-performance constexpr ranges
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Sorting
integer_sequenceat compile time (2024-02-19) benchmarks compile-time-performance constexpr ranges -
How
boost::is_base_ofmatches private and/or ambiguous bases (2023-10-06) classical-polymorphism type-traits - Fun with quadratic pack-expansions (2023-08-05) compile-time-performance constexpr cpplang-slack lambdas variadic-templates
- PSA: Value-initialization is not merely default-construction (2023-06-22) initialization language-design proposal varna-2023
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A deduction guide for
Foo(Ts..., Ts...)(2023-05-26) class-template-argument-deduction cpplang-slack implementation-divergence variadic-templates - Test an expression for constexpr-friendliness (2022-01-04) constexpr cpplang-slack implementation-divergence
- Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence library-design pitfalls ranges
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Is
pathconvertible tostring_view?: a war story (2021-11-21) concepts llvm overload-resolution pitfalls war-stories -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires, part 2 (2021-09-14) benchmarks compile-time-performance concepts llvm -
A compile-time benchmark for
enable_ifandrequires(2021-09-04) benchmarks compile-time-performance concepts llvm -
Perfect forwarding call wrappers need
=delete(2021-07-30) pitfalls -
priority_tagfor ad-hoc tag dispatch (2021-07-09) pearls templates - Tag dispatch versus concept overloading (2021-06-07) concepts templates
- Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup cpplang-slack library-design
- Overly interoperable libraries, part 2 (2021-05-22) cpplang-slack implementation-divergence
- A metaprogramming puzzle: Overly interoperable libraries (2021-05-19) cpplang-slack
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Tips re
operator()(2020-12-12) c++-style lambdas rant - How to use a private member from outside the class (2020-12-03) access-control templates
- Left-folding and right-folding an arbitrary callable (2020-10-12) cpplang-slack variadic-templates
- Inheritance is for sharing an interface (and so is overloading) (2020-10-09) c++-style classical-polymorphism templates
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Classically polymorphic
visitreplaces some uses ofdynamic_cast(2020-09-29) classical-polymorphism templates variadic-templates war-stories - SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) concepts implementation-divergence library-design standard-library-trivia templates
- Comparative TMP #1: MPL, Mp11, Kvasir, Hana, Metal (2019-12-28) templates
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Implementation divergence with
friend(2019-09-10) access-control classical-polymorphism implementation-divergence -
Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to
std::default_order(2019-08-08) operator-spaceship pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics -
Conditional
explicitis not the same thing as forwardingexplicit(2019-07-05) templates - P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts implementation-divergence templates wg21
- This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts customization-points library-design
- What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) c++-learner-track library-design type-erasure
- Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls slogans
- Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) coroutines ranges sufficiently-smart-compiler
- Thoughts on P1306 “Expansion Statements” (2019-02-28) kona-2019 language-design variadic-templates
- Fetishizing class invariants (2019-02-24) flat-containers kona-2019 library-design standard-library-trivia
- Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) kona-2019 pitfalls variadic-templates
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compressed_vector_traits(2019-02-16) library-design - Packs of packs (2019-02-11) kona-2019 language-design variadic-templates
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C++ idiom of the day:
arrow_proxy(2019-02-06) flat-containers library-design pearls - Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) concepts implementation-divergence templates variadic-templates
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Pointer comparisons with
std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) operator-spaceship rant standard-library-trivia undefined-behavior -
Is this
std::vector? (2019-01-17) -
Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
const_iterator(2018-12-01) antipatterns c++-style constructors library-design pitfalls stl-classic - “Perfect backwarding” (2018-09-25) copy-elision
- A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts preprocessor rant
- Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) concepts pitfalls
- The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) concepts rant
- Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) compiler-diagnostics concepts pearls templates
- Template metaprogramming: Iteration is better than recursion (2018-07-23) compile-time-performance templates variadic-templates
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What does the Standard mean by “
_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points library-design templates wg21 -
operator auto(2018-07-12) implementation-divergence proposal rant today-i-learned - SCARY metafunctions (2018-07-09) compile-time-performance library-design
- Perennial impossibilities of C++ (2018-06-12) constexpr language-design
modules (3)
- Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-learner-track c++-style slogans
- Hello World with C++2a modules (2019-11-07) how-to llvm
- Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) jacksonville-2018 language-design rant wg21
morality (18)
- Grab bag: Spartan sayings, Jack Pointey (2025-03-01) blog-roundup gilbert-and-sullivan jokes knuth linguistics litclub math old-shit science word-ways
- What I’m reading lately: Africa, liberty, economics (2024-01-12) blog-roundup litclub science
- Origins and purposes (2023-10-18) litclub old-shit
- R.I.P. The OFloinn (2023-10-03) blog-roundup old-shit
- Cryptic poems, Mahabharata, means of production (2021-11-18) blog-roundup cppcon movies poetry puzzles us-politics
- Thoughts on “Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?” (2020-12-27) blog-roundup science
- Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub movies old-shit
- What I’m reading lately: New York, The Atlantic, The Three-Body Problem (2020-08-15) litclub us-politics
- What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) blog-roundup litclub movies us-politics
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- Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub math puzzles us-politics
- Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) gilbert-and-sullivan litclub old-shit
- What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup litclub old-shit sre
- Against the Grain: Contraception, abortion, and slow death (2018-12-26) litclub
- “Counterfactual mugging” a.k.a. “charity” (2018-11-19) blog-roundup litclub us-politics
- Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes movies old-shit
- Assume a spherical politician (2018-07-04) science us-politics
- Providentissimus Deus (2018-03-13) undefined-behavior
move-semantics (16)
- A case study in not-quite-move-semantic library design (2024-04-18) classical-polymorphism library-design
- A small C++ meme dump (2023-06-17) c++-style concepts cpplang-slack memes relocatability stl-classic varna-2023
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Making
priority_queueandflat_setwork with move-only types (2023-03-01) flat-containers library-design llvm relocatability stl-classic -
A “pick two” triangle for
std::vector(2022-09-30) exception-handling stl-classic - What is the “vector pessimization”? (2022-08-26) c++-learner-track exception-handling pitfalls stl-classic
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Don’t blindly prefer
emplace_backtopush_back(2021-03-03) benchmarks c++-learner-track compile-time-performance pitfalls - Thoughts on “The C++ Rvalue Lifetime Disaster” (2020-03-04) copy-elision paradigm-shift
- Self-assignment and the Rule of Zero (2019-08-20) pitfalls smart-pointers
- MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow exception-handling msvc pitfalls relocatability
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constis a contract (2019-01-03) c++-learner-track c++-style slogans - Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) concepts library-design type-erasure
- Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) proposal relocatability triviality value-semantics
- Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) blog-roundup copy-elision today-i-learned
- Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) copy-elision exception-handling sufficiently-smart-compiler
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On lifetime extension and
decltype(auto)(2018-04-05) c++-style lifetime-extension - The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
movies (10)
- What I watched and read this year (2024-12-31) litclub music poetry
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- Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub morality old-shit
- What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) blog-roundup litclub morality us-politics
- Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) litclub old-shit transcription
- Against the Grain: Pitcher plant (2018-12-25) litclub
- Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes morality old-shit
- The Demagogue in Politics (2018-04-03) old-shit transcription us-politics
- Johnny Eck in Tarzan Escapes (2018-03-24) old-shit today-i-learned
msvc (3)
- Hash-colliding string literals on MSVC (2022-12-31) implementation-divergence
- MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow exception-handling move-semantics pitfalls relocatability
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Exploring C++ types with
puts(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__)(2018-08-22) pearls templates
music (7)
- NYPL Musical of the Month (2025-03-10) blog-roundup gilbert-and-sullivan old-shit
- What I watched and read this year (2024-12-31) litclub movies poetry
- Blessed nuns fret not at their narrow rooms (2022-05-23) litclub old-shit poetry
- Birdle (2022-02-20) jokes playable-games web wordle
- Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Coronavirus Version) (2020-04-08) jokes memes
- RFM: Request for mashups (2019-03-17) this-should-exist
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name-lookup (9)
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Why can’t I specialize
std::hashinside my own namespace? (2024-07-15) cpplang-slack proposal templates - Name lookup in multiple base classes (2024-04-17) c++-learner-track classical-polymorphism customization-points
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Fun with “deducing
this” lambdas (2024-01-23) cpplang-slack lambdas - To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) argument-dependent-lookup c++-style customization-points library-design paradigm-shift
- PSA: ADL requires that unqualified lookup has found a function (2022-04-14) argument-dependent-lookup cpplang-slack customization-points library-design pitfalls standard-library-trivia
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decltypeof a non-static member (2021-02-10) concepts implementation-divergence - Fun with conversion-operator name lookup (2021-01-13) implementation-divergence
- How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track namespaces
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namespaces (1)
- How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track name-lookup
naming (6)
- Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology library-design litclub old-shit
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inplace_fooversusfixed_capacity_foo(2018-06-18) library-design sg14 - Which in your case you have not got (2018-06-17) litclub poetry today-i-learned
- Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors rant templates value-semantics wg21
- P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design operator-spaceship templates triviality value-semantics wg21
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networking (6)
- OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 5 (2020-01-28) library-design web
- OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 4 (2020-01-27) library-design
- OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 3 (2020-01-26) library-design
- OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 2 (2020-01-25) library-design
- OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 1 (2020-01-24) library-design
- How DNS got so complicated (2018-11-20) sre wg21
nodiscard (5)
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Field-testing
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Should
std::expectedbe[[nodiscard]]? (2024-12-08) attributes exception-handling proposal - The style guide must say how to do what you mustn’t do (2023-08-11) c++-style compiler-diagnostics language-design library-design
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nodiscardphilosophies (2019-01-25) attributes compiler-diagnostics library-design -
An argument pro liberal use of
[[nodiscard]](2018-11-06) c++-style pitfalls
old-shit (53)
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- Grab bag: Spartan sayings, Jack Pointey (2025-03-01) blog-roundup gilbert-and-sullivan jokes knuth linguistics litclub math morality science word-ways
- Both sides of the shield (2025-02-28) poetry
- Wolf (1906) on the false Quijotes of Avellaneda and Lesage (2024-11-02) help-wanted litclub transcription
- The red right arm of Jove (2024-09-09) litclub poetry
- The little bird attacks the snake (2024-08-26) adventure etymology litclub
- Make things simpler than possible (2024-08-04) knuth poetry training
- Topsys & Turvys (1893) (2024-05-23) pretty-pictures transcription web
- The Mummy! (1827) (2024-04-08) litclub science
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- A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig (1822) (2023-11-20) food litclub poetry
- Origins and purposes (2023-10-18) litclub morality
- R.I.P. The OFloinn (2023-10-03) blog-roundup morality
- Themistocles and Alexander (2023-06-07) jokes litclub
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- The epitaph of Adrian’s horse (2023-03-22) blog-roundup jokes litclub poetry weird-fiction
- -Ought words (2023-02-20) etymology litclub poetry today-i-learned word-ways
- Pangrams and Scrabblegrams (2023-01-02) celebration-of-mind clement-wood help-wanted puzzles typography word-ways
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- Copy semantics, per Plato’s Sophist (2022-12-15) c++-learner-track value-semantics
- What I’m reading lately: tunnel edition (2022-11-12) blog-roundup jokes linguistics litclub math us-politics
- Issachar Styrke’s Alcestis Burlesqued (2022-10-24) alcestis gilbert-and-sullivan litclub poetry
- Notes on Sonia Greene’s Alcestis (2022-10-23) alcestis gilbert-and-sullivan litclub weird-fiction
- Sonia Greene’s Alcestis (2022-10-22) alcestis litclub transcription weird-fiction
- Three Men Discuss Relativity (1926) (2022-06-17) litclub paradigm-shift science
- Blessed nuns fret not at their narrow rooms (2022-05-23) litclub music poetry
- The humble potato (2022-04-25) food litclub
- The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922) (2021-11-05) litclub math paradigm-shift web
- Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology library-design litclub naming
- Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub morality movies
- Site reliability engineering at Ardeer; eyewitnesses to Hiroshima (2020-10-17) blog-roundup sre
- What I’m reading lately: The Ring of Words (2020-08-05) etymology litclub today-i-learned
- A Parody on Iolanthe (2020-07-20) gilbert-and-sullivan litclub today-i-learned
- What I’m reading lately: The Compleat Boucher (2020-04-05) litclub morality sre
- De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup etymology litclub memes
- Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) litclub movies transcription
- Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) gilbert-and-sullivan litclub morality
- What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup litclub morality sre
- The wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Frederick II (2019-04-29)
- Booth bits; modern cuisine (2019-03-28) food poetry
- On choosing the exact right terminology (2019-01-15) sre
- The “Red Clause” (2018-10-05) us-politics
- Pray-Mister-Babbage problems (2018-09-26) memes
- The Mysteries of London (2018-09-05) litclub us-politics
- The Three Impostors: Four-ale and six-ale (2018-07-26) litclub today-i-learned weird-fiction
- Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes morality movies
- Renowned author Dan Brown; London’s Gold-Mines (2018-07-10) litclub
- Madame Scarron (2018-06-22) litclub
- Great Deploy Plans of History: Time Zones (2018-05-21) sre
- The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World (1666) (2018-04-05) litclub
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Make
operator<=>ignore a data member (2023-06-05) c++-style paradigm-shift pearls -
operator<=>doesn’t obsolete the hidden friend idiom (2021-10-22) argument-dependent-lookup c++-style hidden-friend-idiom stl-classic -
Bit patterns of
float(2021-09-05) how-to math pretty-pictures -
Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to
std::default_order(2019-08-08) metaprogramming pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics - Enums break strong structural equality (2019-07-04) templates wg21
- How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) kona-2019 relocatability wg21
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Pointer comparisons with
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- Contra built-in library types (2018-04-15) implementation-divergence language-design rant
- P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming templates triviality value-semantics wg21
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Refactoring with
=delete(2022-11-11) c++-learner-track war-stories -
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paradigm-shift (12)
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Make
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- To enable ADL, add a using-declaration (2022-04-30) argument-dependent-lookup c++-style customization-points library-design name-lookup
- The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922) (2021-11-05) litclub math old-shit web
- The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) blog-roundup math
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- Parameter-only types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) c++-style parameter-only-types
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std::string_viewis a parameter-only type (2018-03-27) c++-style lifetime-extension parameter-only-types pitfalls - Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup coroutines exception-handling language-design
parameter-only-types (18)
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Socrates on why there’s no
erase_ifforspan(2023-07-16) library-design -
P1967
#embedand D2752 “Static storage forinitializer_list” are now on Compiler Explorer (2023-01-13) initializer-list llvm preprocessor proposal wg21 -
A footnote on “Three reasons to pass
std::string_viewby value” (2021-11-19) library-design -
Three reasons to pass
std::string_viewby value (2021-11-09) c++-learner-track c++-style library-design -
std::spanshould have a converting constructor frominitializer_list(2021-10-03) initializer-list llvm proposal wg21 - Lifetime extension applies to whole objects (2020-11-16) implementation-divergence lifetime-extension
- C++Now 2020: A C++ Magic Trick (2020-05-04) cppnow web
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c_str-correctness (2020-03-20) c++-style - An unexpected brush with “strong typedefs” (2019-10-10) library-design standard-library-trivia
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A trivially copyable ticket for a
unique_ptr(2019-09-21) cppcon relocatability smart-pointers - C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) coroutines cpplang-slack pitfalls
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MapViewcan be faster thanMapRef(2019-05-27) benchmarks cppnow library-design -
On
function_refandstring_view(2019-05-10) cppnow library-design pitfalls type-erasure value-semantics -
The space of design choices for
std::function(2019-03-27) library-design type-erasure - Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming pitfalls slogans
- View types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design pitfalls sg14 wg21
- Parameter-only types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) c++-style paradigm-shift
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std::string_viewis a parameter-only type (2018-03-27) c++-style lifetime-extension paradigm-shift pitfalls
pearls (20)
- Better diagnostics through operator-precedence parsing (2025-02-27) compiler-diagnostics language-design
- A neat technique for custom output iterators (2023-10-01) stl-classic today-i-learned
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Make
operator<=>ignore a data member (2023-06-05) c++-style operator-spaceship paradigm-shift -
Iterating and inverting a const
views::filter(2023-03-13) cpplang-slack ranges - Simple C++20 input and output iterators (2023-01-27) stl-classic type-erasure
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Type-erased
InplaceUniquePrintablebenefits fromnoexcept(2022-07-30) exception-handling llvm relocatability type-erasure -
std::relocate’s implementation is cute (2022-05-18) relocatability -
Underseeding
mt19937; introducingxoshiro256ss(2021-11-23) antipatterns random-numbers -
A macro for migrating to
static operator()(2021-10-07) preprocessor proposal -
priority_tagfor ad-hoc tag dispatch (2021-07-09) metaprogramming templates -
Type-erased
UniquePrintableandPrintableRef(2020-11-24) cpplang-slack type-erasure - Two approaches to secret sharing: math vs. blockchain (2020-02-12) esolang math
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How to replace
__FILE__withsource_locationin a logging macro (2020-02-12) c++-style preprocessor -
C++ idiom of the day:
arrow_proxy(2019-02-06) flat-containers library-design metaprogramming -
make_rangeandreversed(2018-08-29) ranges templates - Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) compiler-diagnostics concepts metaprogramming templates
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Exploring C++ types with
puts(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__)(2018-08-22) msvc templates -
The
Automacro (2018-08-11) c++-style lambdas memes preprocessor -
The
FORCE_CONSTEXPRmacro (2018-08-07) constexpr preprocessor sufficiently-smart-compiler - Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style preprocessor war-stories
pitfalls (48)
- Types that falsely advertise trivial copyability (2024-05-15) implementation-divergence metaprogramming proposal triviality type-traits
- Some C++20 ranges aren’t const-iterable (2023-08-13) library-design ranges
- What is the “vector pessimization”? (2022-08-26) c++-learner-track exception-handling move-semantics stl-classic
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Beware CTAD on
reverse_iterator(2022-08-02) class-template-argument-deduction stl-classic war-stories - C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization has some downsides (2022-06-03) c++-learner-track constructors cpplang-slack initialization
- PSA: ADL requires that unqualified lookup has found a function (2022-04-14) argument-dependent-lookup cpplang-slack customization-points library-design name-lookup standard-library-trivia
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constall the things? (2022-01-23) antipatterns c++-style holy-wars - Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming ranges
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Is
pathconvertible tostring_view?: a war story (2021-11-21) concepts llvm metaprogramming overload-resolution war-stories -
Don’t explicitly instantiate
stdtemplates (2021-08-06) library-design sd-8-adjacent -
Perfect forwarding call wrappers need
=delete(2021-07-30) metaprogramming -
Another
requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence - Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision cpplang-slack implicit-move proposal
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Don’t blindly prefer
emplace_backtopush_back(2021-03-03) benchmarks c++-learner-track compile-time-performance move-semantics - “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) classical-polymorphism concurrency war-stories
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Why do I get a linker error with
static constandvalue_or? (2020-09-19) c++-learner-track cppcon war-stories - Ways C++ prevents you from doing X (2020-03-17) access-control c++-learner-track
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Contra
char *argv[](2020-03-12) mailing-list-quotes rant -
Hidden
reinterpret_casts (2020-01-22) cpplang-slack templates -
PSA:
<random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) random-numbers rant standard-library-trivia - ADL can interfere even with uglified names (2019-09-26) argument-dependent-lookup standard-library-trivia
- Self-assignment and the Rule of Zero (2019-08-20) move-semantics smart-pointers
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Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to
std::default_order(2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics - C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) coroutines cpplang-slack parameter-only-types
- MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow exception-handling move-semantics msvc relocatability
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On
function_refandstring_view(2019-05-10) cppnow library-design parameter-only-types type-erasure value-semantics - Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming parameter-only-types slogans
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PSA:
shared_ptr<T>()is notmake_shared<T>()(2019-03-06) smart-pointers war-stories - Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) kona-2019 metaprogramming variadic-templates
- Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction library-design sd-8-adjacent slogans
- Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction compiler-diagnostics llvm
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Pitfalls and decision points in implementing
const_iterator(2018-12-01) antipatterns c++-style constructors library-design metaprogramming stl-classic -
Remember the
ifstream(2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism concepts library-design rant - Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) attributes copy-elision
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An argument pro liberal use of
[[nodiscard]](2018-11-06) c++-style nodiscard - WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
- Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) concepts metaprogramming
- Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup compiler-diagnostics llvm proposal
- When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) proposal relocatability triviality wg21
- C++ quiz of the day (2018-07-08) relocatability
- Defaulted destructor inhibits move (2018-07-07)
- The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) benchmarks compile-time-performance hyperrogue initializer-list war-stories
- Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points hyperrogue sd-8-adjacent war-stories
- View types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design parameter-only-types sg14 wg21
- Contra implicit declarations of struct types (2018-05-16) language-design rant
- Downsides of omitting trivial destructor calls (2018-04-17) standard-library-trivia sufficiently-smart-compiler today-i-learned
- A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) compiler-diagnostics memes this-should-exist
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std::string_viewis a parameter-only type (2018-03-27) c++-style lifetime-extension paradigm-shift parameter-only-types
playable-games (11)
- Playing A Serf’s Tale (1986) (2024-09-30) adventure
- Infinite Craft (2024-02-08) hyperrogue web
- Triangular Tetris (2023-05-19) celebration-of-mind web
- The game of Lielow (2022-09-02) board-games puzzles web
- Evirdle (2022-02-27) web wordle
- Birdle (2022-02-20) jokes music web wordle
- Evasive Maneuvers (1994) (2021-10-08) digital-antiquaria web
- Play The Search for Almazar online (2021-05-16) adventure digital-antiquaria web
- Phantoms vs Phantoms (Geister) (2020-08-22) board-games web
- Throwback Saturday: Three variants on 2048 (2019-11-16) web
- Dragonflight, and running DosBox in the browser (2019-08-11) digital-antiquaria web
poetry (15)
- Both sides of the shield (2025-02-28) old-shit
- What I watched and read this year (2024-12-31) litclub movies music
- The red right arm of Jove (2024-09-09) litclub old-shit
- Make things simpler than possible (2024-08-04) knuth old-shit training
- Johnson’s definition of network (2024-04-05) linguistics litclub old-shit
- A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig (1822) (2023-11-20) food litclub old-shit
- The epitaph of Adrian’s horse (2023-03-22) blog-roundup jokes litclub old-shit weird-fiction
- -Ought words (2023-02-20) etymology litclub old-shit today-i-learned word-ways
- Issachar Styrke’s Alcestis Burlesqued (2022-10-24) alcestis gilbert-and-sullivan litclub old-shit
- Blessed nuns fret not at their narrow rooms (2022-05-23) litclub music old-shit
- Cryptic poems, Mahabharata, means of production (2021-11-18) blog-roundup cppcon morality movies puzzles us-politics
- The Story of Mel (2020-01-05) esolang litclub war-stories
- Booth bits; modern cuisine (2019-03-28) food old-shit
- ’Ware Wire (2018-06-20) litclub
- Which in your case you have not got (2018-06-17) litclub naming today-i-learned
preprocessor (11)
- “Cumbersome” labeled loops and the C preprocessor (2024-12-22) language-design proposal wg21
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Feature requests for the
Automacro (2024-02-14) exception-handling lambdas -
P1967
#embedand D2752 “Static storage forinitializer_list” are now on Compiler Explorer (2023-01-13) initializer-list llvm parameter-only-types proposal wg21 -
A macro for migrating to
static operator()(2021-10-07) pearls proposal - What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) adventure c++-learner-track hyperrogue
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How to replace
__FILE__withsource_locationin a logging macro (2020-02-12) c++-style pearls - A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts metaprogramming rant
- A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) concepts rant
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The
Automacro (2018-08-11) c++-style lambdas memes pearls -
The
FORCE_CONSTEXPRmacro (2018-08-07) constexpr pearls sufficiently-smart-compiler - Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style pearls war-stories
pretty-pictures (15)
- Counting distinct n-state DFAs (2024-07-27) math
- Tangent circles of integer radius (2024-06-10) help-wanted math puzzles
- Topsys & Turvys (1893) (2024-05-23) old-shit transcription web
- Pentoprimality (2024-01-15) math puzzles
- Escheresque parquet deformations of an aperiodic monotile (2023-03-30) celebration-of-mind math web
- Lego polycube snakes (2022-12-11) lego math puzzles
- Polyomino strips, snakes, and ouroboroi (2022-12-08) math puzzles
- Image rotation by three affine transformations (2021-11-26) image-processing math web
- Image rotation by shifting pixels (2021-11-13) image-processing web
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Bit patterns of
float(2021-09-05) how-to math operator-spaceship - Buddhabrot (2021-07-27) math
- Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind math typography web
- The Star Wars cellular automaton (2020-06-29) cellular-automata esolang web
- A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) cellular-automata digital-antiquaria esolang math web
- Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) lego math science
proposal (44)
- How my papers did at Hagenberg (2025-02-18) allocators exception-handling language-design library-design rant relocatability sg14 triviality wg21
- Semantically ordered arguments, round 2 (2025-01-05) library-design standard-library-trivia wg21
- “Cumbersome” labeled loops and the C preprocessor (2024-12-22) language-design preprocessor wg21
- Labeled loop syntax in many languages (2024-12-20) esolang language-design wg21
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Field-testing
-Wassign-to-class-rvalue(2024-12-13) compiler-diagnostics llvm nodiscard -
Should
std::expectedbe[[nodiscard]]? (2024-12-08) attributes exception-handling nodiscard -
Boost.Interprocess, and
sg14::inplace_vector(2024-08-23) allocators data-structures relocatability sg14 stl-classic -
Why can’t I specialize
std::hashinside my own namespace? (2024-07-15) cpplang-slack name-lookup templates - How my papers did at St Louis (2024-06-30) language-design relocatability st-louis-2024 stl-classic triviality wg21
- Who uses P2786 and P1144 for trivial relocation? (2024-06-15) relocatability st-louis-2024 triviality
- Types that falsely advertise P2786 trivial relocatability (2024-05-18) relocatability st-louis-2024 triviality
- Types that falsely advertise trivial copyability (2024-05-15) implementation-divergence metaprogramming pitfalls triviality type-traits
- Help wanted: Compile your codebase with P1144 and P2786 relocatability! (2024-04-10) help-wanted llvm relocatability wg21
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Should assignment affect
is_trivially_relocatable? (2024-01-02) relocatability - How my papers did at Kona (2023-11-12) attributes exception-handling implicit-move initializer-list kona-2023 lambdas library-design relocatability stl-classic value-semantics wg21
- Guard nouns or guard verbs? (2023-11-11) attributes concurrency exception-handling kona-2023 library-design mailing-list-quotes
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Quuxplusone/SG14now hasinplace_vector(2023-10-20) allocators library-design relocatability sg14 standard-library-trivia - Polymorphic types aren’t trivially relocatable (2023-06-24) classical-polymorphism relocatability varna-2023
- PSA: Value-initialization is not merely default-construction (2023-06-22) initialization language-design metaprogramming varna-2023
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P1967
#embedand D2752 “Static storage forinitializer_list” are now on Compiler Explorer (2023-01-13) initializer-list llvm parameter-only-types preprocessor wg21 -
Thoughts on
-Wctad-maybe-unsupported(2022-10-07) class-template-argument-deduction compiler-diagnostics llvm rant -
A macro for migrating to
static operator()(2021-10-07) pearls preprocessor -
std::spanshould have a converting constructor frominitializer_list(2021-10-03) initializer-list llvm parameter-only-types wg21 - Field-testing P2266 “Simpler Implicit Move” (2021-08-07) implicit-move llvm
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P2266’s interaction with
decltype(auto)(2021-05-04) cppnow implicit-move - Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision cpplang-slack implicit-move pitfalls
- How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control compiler-diagnostics implementation-divergence llvm sufficiently-smart-compiler
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Precedence of a proposed
|>operator (2020-04-10) coroutines language-design ranges wg21 - Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision initializer-list lifetime-extension llvm
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Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design rant wg21 - In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) coroutines wg21
- WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls san-diego-2018 wg21
- Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) argument-dependent-lookup llvm
- Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup compiler-diagnostics llvm pitfalls
- Announcing “trivially relocatable” (2018-07-18) relocatability
- When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls relocatability triviality wg21
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operator auto(2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming rant today-i-learned - Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) move-semantics relocatability triviality value-semantics
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Attribute
noexcept_verify(2018-06-12) compiler-diagnostics exception-handling -
has_no_padding_bits(2018-06-08) rant -
std::priority_queueis missing an operation (2018-04-27) benchmarks data-structures library-design -
Use-cases for
false_v(2018-04-02) templates type-traits undefined-behavior - The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision move-semantics sufficiently-smart-compiler
- Namespaces for UDLs (2018-03-21) jacksonville-2018 wg21
puzzles (45)
- The crossword from Bored to Death S2E5 (2025-01-28) jokes transcription
- Fully Schrödinger crosswords (2025-01-03) word-ways
- Nash equilibria in Ballmer’s binary-search interview game (2024-09-04) math
- Tangent circles of integer radius (2024-06-10) help-wanted math pretty-pictures
- Reverse the List of Integers (2024-04-22) math
- Pentoprimality (2024-01-15) math pretty-pictures
- Holiday puzzle: Anagrams modulo two (2023-12-24) celebration-of-mind word-ways
- Happy 109th birthday, Martin Gardner! (2023-10-21) celebration-of-mind math
- Space-filling polycube snakes (2023-06-27) celebration-of-mind math
- Mathematical golf (2023-03-23) board-games clement-wood math old-shit
- Pangrams and Scrabblegrams (2023-01-02) celebration-of-mind clement-wood help-wanted old-shit typography word-ways
- Milner’s lamp (2023-01-01) math old-shit
- Lego polycube snakes (2022-12-11) lego math pretty-pictures
- Polyomino strips, snakes, and ouroboroi (2022-12-08) math pretty-pictures
- Polycube snakes and ouroboroi (2022-11-18) celebration-of-mind coroutines math
- The game of Lielow (2022-09-02) board-games playable-games web
- Cryptic poems, Mahabharata, means of production (2021-11-18) blog-roundup cppcon morality movies poetry us-politics
- Overload arrangement puzzles (2021-10-29) cppcon overload-resolution
- Rolling 2d6 with playing cards (2021-10-21) celebration-of-mind etymology math today-i-learned
- Two old crosswords of mine (2021-08-24) knuth typography word-ways
- Two counterintuitive results (2021-08-12) math science
- Antisocial Homeworlds, and a solitaire challenge (2021-04-04) board-games homeworlds
- Homeworlds Puzzle: Mercury in Retrograde (2020-10-28) board-games homeworlds
- Homeworlds Puzzle: Burnt Umber (2020-10-25) board-games homeworlds
- Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games celebration-of-mind math web
- Conway’s Soldiers (2020-10-17) blog-roundup
- Homeworlds Puzzle: The Prestige (2020-06-16) board-games homeworlds
- Homeworlds Puzzle: War Games (2020-05-30) board-games homeworlds
- Homeworlds Puzzle: Mini Doomsday Machine (2020-05-29) board-games homeworlds web
- Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub math morality us-politics
- Wolves and Sheep, with tables (2020-01-10) math
- Discrete Peaceful Encampments, with tables (2019-10-18) math
- Puzzle: Wolves and sheep (2019-04-17) math
- README for my Peaceful Encampments visualizer (2019-03-18) math web
- Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) adventure digital-antiquaria web
- Discrete Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-24) math
- Peaceful Encampments, round 2 (2019-01-21) math web
- Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure celebration-of-mind knuth litclub math web
- Meta-sudoku, round 4: A valid meta-puzzle (2018-11-20) math
- Meta-sudoku, round 3: D’oh! (2018-11-19) math
- Meta-sudoku, round 2 (2018-11-18) math
- Puzzle: Sudoku Stories (2018-10-26) math
- Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) blog-roundup jokes math
- Puzzle: Policing Squaresville (2018-05-10) blog-roundup math
- Hanabi set-packing puzzle (2018-04-09) board-games math
random-numbers (3)
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Underseeding
mt19937; introducingxoshiro256ss(2021-11-23) antipatterns pearls - “Myths about /dev/urandom” and “What Is JavaScript Made Of?” (2020-02-09) blog-roundup
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PSA:
<random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) pitfalls rant standard-library-trivia
ranges (15)
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When
ranges::for_eachbehaves differently fromfor(2024-12-09) implementation-divergence library-design standard-library-trivia - Sorting at compile time, part 2 (2024-02-20) benchmarks compile-time-performance constexpr metaprogramming
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Sorting
integer_sequenceat compile time (2024-02-19) benchmarks compile-time-performance constexpr metaprogramming - Some C++20 ranges aren’t const-iterable (2023-08-13) library-design pitfalls
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Iterating and inverting a const
views::filter(2023-03-13) cpplang-slack pearls -
TIL:
nullopt_tis not equality-comparable, butmonostateis (2022-03-07) cpplang-slack standard-library-trivia today-i-learned value-semantics - Completeness preconditions considered harmful (2021-12-27) concepts cpplang-slack implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming pitfalls
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A note on
namespace __cpo(2021-12-07) hidden-friend-idiom library-design llvm war-stories -
view_interfacetypes are boolean-testable (2021-12-06) c++-style today-i-learned -
The STL is more than
std::accumulate(2020-12-14) cppcon memes rant stl-classic -
Precedence of a proposed
|>operator (2020-04-10) coroutines language-design proposal wg21 -
Announcing
Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) concepts coroutines web - Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) coroutines metaprogramming sufficiently-smart-compiler
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for (auto&& elt : range)Still Always Works (2018-12-27) c++-style -
make_rangeandreversed(2018-08-29) pearls templates
rant (46)
- How my papers did at Hagenberg (2025-02-18) allocators exception-handling language-design library-design proposal relocatability sg14 triviality wg21
- Like (2025-02-09) linguistics litclub
- The Elements of Programming Style (1974) (2024-11-27) blog-roundup c++-style litclub slogans
- The jargon treadmill (2023-02-04) c++-style etymology linguistics
- Prefer core-language features over library facilities (2022-10-16) c++-learner-track c++-style concepts coroutines
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Thoughts on
-Wctad-maybe-unsupported(2022-10-07) class-template-argument-deduction compiler-diagnostics llvm proposal - Google Timer is dead; long live BigTimer (2022-07-25) conferences web
- Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too (2021-05-05) cppnow library-design standard-library-trivia
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Optimizing
string::appendis harder than it looks (2021-04-17) exception-handling llvm standard-library-trivia war-stories -
The STL is more than
std::accumulate(2020-12-14) cppcon memes ranges stl-classic -
Tips re
operator()(2020-12-12) c++-style lambdas metaprogramming - Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style compiler-diagnostics language-design
- How to erase from an STL container (2020-07-08) c++-learner-track library-design standard-library-trivia stl-classic
- Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track c++-style language-design library-design slogans
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A seasonal followup to “When is
*xalso&x?” (2020-04-01) -
Contra
char *argv[](2020-03-12) mailing-list-quotes pitfalls -
Holiday fun with
template<class>andtemplate<typename>(2019-12-27) class-template-argument-deduction implementation-divergence templates - Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) classical-polymorphism cpplang-slack
- Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible (2019-11-20) cpplang-slack web
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PSA:
<random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) pitfalls random-numbers standard-library-trivia - The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators copy-elision coroutines wg21
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Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal wg21 - “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” (2019-06-06) concurrency science
- The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) board-games constructors initialization language-design
- On teaching Unicode in C++ (2019-02-03) typography
- Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 library-design wg21
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Hot takes on
flat_map,resize_default_init, andranges::to(2019-01-28) flat-containers kona-2019 wg21 -
Pointer comparisons with
std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) metaprogramming operator-spaceship standard-library-trivia undefined-behavior -
requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) concepts language-design -
Remember the
ifstream(2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism concepts library-design pitfalls - Execution-agent-local storage (2018-11-14) memes thread-local-storage
- A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts metaprogramming preprocessor
- A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) concepts preprocessor
- The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) concepts metaprogramming
- C++ doesn’t know how to do customization points that aren’t operators (2018-08-23) customization-points operator-spaceship
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operator auto(2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming proposal today-i-learned - Trivially-constructible-from (2018-07-03) relocatability standard-library-trivia triviality
- Is your constructor an object-factory or a type-conversion? (2018-06-21) constructors initialization library-design
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view_interfacetypes are boolean-testable (2021-12-06) c++-style ranges - Rolling 2d6 with playing cards (2021-10-21) celebration-of-mind etymology math puzzles
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operator auto(2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming proposal rant - shields.io (2018-06-26) hyperrogue sre web
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My muscle-memory
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noexceptaffects libstdc++’sunordered_set(2024-08-16) benchmarks data-structures exception-handling standard-library-trivia stl-classic - How my papers did at St Louis (2024-06-30) language-design proposal relocatability st-louis-2024 stl-classic wg21
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mutableand “trivially fooable” (2018-08-19) relocatability wg21 - When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls proposal relocatability wg21
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Type-erased
InplaceUniquePrintablebenefits fromnoexcept(2022-07-30) exception-handling llvm pearls relocatability -
Type-erased
UniquePrintableandPrintableRef(2020-11-24) cpplang-slack pearls -
On
function_refandstring_view(2019-05-10) cppnow library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls value-semantics -
The space of design choices for
std::function(2019-03-27) library-design parameter-only-types - What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming
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37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to
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A
priority_tag-like pattern for type-based metaprogramming (2024-07-07) metaprogramming templates - Types that falsely advertise trivial copyability (2024-05-15) implementation-divergence metaprogramming pitfalls proposal triviality
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How
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Use-cases for
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Pointer comparisons with
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Use-cases for
false_v(2018-04-02) proposal templates type-traits - Providentissimus Deus (2018-03-13) morality
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The “
unsignedfor value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) antipatterns c++-style rant
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- P1144 PMR koans (2023-06-03) allocators implementation-divergence relocatability varna-2023 wg21
- A not-so-quick introduction to the C++ allocator model (2023-06-02) allocators relocatability
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Trivial relocation,
std::swap, and a $2000 prize (2023-02-24) help-wanted relocatability wg21 - Copy semantics, per Plato’s Sophist (2022-12-15) c++-learner-track old-shit
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TIL:
nullopt_tis not equality-comparable, butmonostateis (2022-03-07) cpplang-slack ranges standard-library-trivia today-i-learned -
On
function_refandstring_view(2019-05-10) cppnow library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls type-erasure - Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) move-semantics proposal relocatability triviality
- Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors naming rant templates wg21
- P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming operator-spaceship templates triviality wg21
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A deduction guide for
Foo(Ts..., Ts...)(2023-05-26) class-template-argument-deduction cpplang-slack implementation-divergence metaprogramming - Left-folding and right-folding an arbitrary callable (2020-10-12) cpplang-slack metaprogramming
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Classically polymorphic
visitreplaces some uses ofdynamic_cast(2020-09-29) classical-polymorphism metaprogramming templates war-stories -
Folding over
operator=(2020-05-07) blog-roundup order-of-evaluation - Thoughts on P1306 “Expansion Statements” (2019-02-28) kona-2019 language-design metaprogramming
- Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) kona-2019 metaprogramming pitfalls
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war-stories (23)
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Replacing
std::lock_guardwith a factory function (2022-12-14) class-template-argument-deduction concurrency exception-handling implementation-divergence library-design llvm templates -
Refactoring with
=delete(2022-11-11) c++-learner-track overload-resolution -
Beware CTAD on
reverse_iterator(2022-08-02) class-template-argument-deduction pitfalls stl-classic - The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Part 2 (2022-01-07) sre
- The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Part 1 (2022-01-06) sre
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A note on
namespace __cpo(2021-12-07) hidden-friend-idiom library-design llvm ranges -
Is
pathconvertible tostring_view?: a war story (2021-11-21) concepts llvm metaprogramming overload-resolution pitfalls -
Optimizing
string::appendis harder than it looks (2021-04-17) exception-handling llvm rant standard-library-trivia -
C’s removal of
getscould have been done better (2021-03-12) compiler-diagnostics - “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) classical-polymorphism concurrency pitfalls
- A case study in implementation inheritance (2020-10-15) classical-polymorphism
- A very short war story on too much overloading (2020-10-11) c++-style
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Classically polymorphic
visitreplaces some uses ofdynamic_cast(2020-09-29) classical-polymorphism metaprogramming templates variadic-templates -
Why do I get a linker error with
static constandvalue_or? (2020-09-19) c++-learner-track cppcon pitfalls - The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns blog-roundup c++-learner-track c++-style slogans
- A bug in Adventure’s endgame (2020-02-06) adventure digital-antiquaria knuth
- The Story of Mel (2020-01-05) esolang litclub poetry
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PSA:
shared_ptr<T>()is notmake_shared<T>()(2019-03-06) pitfalls smart-pointers -
shared_ptr(&w, _1)(2019-02-06) smart-pointers -
37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to
std::function(2019-01-06) compile-time-performance hyperrogue sg14 type-erasure - The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) benchmarks compile-time-performance hyperrogue initializer-list pitfalls
- Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points hyperrogue pitfalls sd-8-adjacent
- Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style pearls preprocessor
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Announcing
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- Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure celebration-of-mind knuth litclub math puzzles
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- Semantically ordered arguments, round 2 (2025-01-05) library-design proposal standard-library-trivia
- “Cumbersome” labeled loops and the C preprocessor (2024-12-22) language-design preprocessor proposal
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- How my papers did at St Louis (2024-06-30) language-design proposal relocatability st-louis-2024 stl-classic triviality
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- A note on feature-test macros (2024-02-06) feature-test-macros
- How my papers did at Kona (2023-11-12) attributes exception-handling implicit-move initializer-list kona-2023 lambdas library-design proposal relocatability stl-classic value-semantics
- P1144 PMR koans (2023-06-03) allocators implementation-divergence relocatability value-semantics varna-2023
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Implementation divergence with a moved-from
setcomparator (2023-05-10) flat-containers implementation-divergence standard-library-trivia stl-classic -
Should the compiler sometimes reject a
[[trivially_relocatable]]warrant? (2023-03-10) language-design library-design relocatability - STL algorithms for trivial relocation (2023-03-03) library-design relocatability stl-classic
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Trivial relocation,
std::swap, and a $2000 prize (2023-02-24) help-wanted relocatability value-semantics - How my papers did at Issaquah (2023-02-17) implementation-divergence initializer-list llvm relocatability sg14
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P1967
#embedand D2752 “Static storage forinitializer_list” are now on Compiler Explorer (2023-01-13) initializer-list llvm parameter-only-types preprocessor proposal -
std::spanshould have a converting constructor frominitializer_list(2021-10-03) initializer-list llvm parameter-only-types proposal -
Precedence of a proposed
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Contra P0339 “
polymorphic_allocator<>as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal rant - In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) coroutines proposal
- A faster WG21 CWG issue browser (2019-05-22) web
- How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) kona-2019 operator-spaceship relocatability
- Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 library-design rant
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Contra P0429R6
flat_map(2019-01-29) flat-containers kona-2019 library-design sg14 -
Hot takes on
flat_map,resize_default_init, andranges::to(2019-01-28) flat-containers kona-2019 rant - How DNS got so complicated (2018-11-20) networking sre
- WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018
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mutableand “trivially fooable” (2018-08-19) relocatability triviality -
What does the Standard mean by “
_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points library-design metaprogramming templates - When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls proposal relocatability triviality
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- WG21 and the National Popular Vote Compact (2018-04-26) us-politics
- Namespaces for UDLs (2018-03-21) jacksonville-2018 proposal
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wg21-folkloristics (8)
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What is the
std::swaptwo-step? (2020-07-11) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track library-design -
Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to
std::default_order(2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates - A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) c++-learner-track cpplang-slack
- “Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security” (2019-06-17) exception-handling
- What is ADL? (2019-04-26) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track
- The Ignorable Attributes Rule (2018-05-15) attributes language-design
- The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) c++-style contracts undefined-behavior
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- -Ought words (2023-02-20) etymology litclub old-shit poetry today-i-learned
- Pangrams and Scrabblegrams (2023-01-02) celebration-of-mind clement-wood help-wanted old-shit puzzles typography
- Two old crosswords of mine (2021-08-24) knuth puzzles typography