ABI Stability
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05/21/21
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Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow. They first discuss some bugs Microsoft found using ASAN in open source projects, and new libraries. Then they talk to Marshall Clow, longtime maintainer of libc++, on his perspective on the C++ ABI, and why stability is important.
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- Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities
- Meeting C++ 2021 Announced
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- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
- COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
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May 28, 2021
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Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC.
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- Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy
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- Spack
- Spack on GitHub
- Spack Tutorial
- Spack Slack
- Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020
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- Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle
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- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6
- COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
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