Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale
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04/20/26
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Jason and Mathieu are joined by Keith Stockdale to discuss C++26 news, his experience upgrading Sea of Thieves from C++14 to C++20 across compilers, and the practical challenges of raising compiler warning levels and enabling warnings as errors.
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Daniel Nikpayuk joins Jason to talk about ccTMP, his C++17 template metaprogramming library that builds a functional type system at compile time by encoding bytecode as template parameters in continuation-passing style — letting the C++ compiler itself optimise away the interpretation layer. They also cover Daniel's path into C++, from typesetting Inuktitut in LaTeX to his longer-term goal of a multimedia programming language for Indigenous storytelling.
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Jason and Mathieu are joined by Chris Bieneman to discuss GPU programming and the evolution of HLSL, the challenges of floating-point determinism on GPUs, and lessons from over a decade of shading language and compiler work.
News
- Sure, xor'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? - Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing
- Preventing Integer Overflow in Physical Computations - Mateusz Pusz, mp-units
- Let's check vibe code that acts like optimized C++ but is actually a mess - Andrey Karpov, PVS-Studio
Links
- Developer Toolchain for the PlayStation 4 - Paul Robinson (2013 LLVM US Dev Meeting)
- HLSL: Decades in the Making - Chris Bieneman (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026)
- GLSL: Origins, Observations and Opportunities - Randi Rost (Khronos Shading Languages Symposium 2026)
- Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI - Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman (ACM)
- Two Compilers, One Language, No Specification - Chris Bieneman (2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting)
- Ecma TC57 - HLSL Standardization Committee (GitHub)
- microsoft/hlsl-specs - HLSL Specifications (GitHub)
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