
Concepts and Algorithm Intuition
CppCast
11/19/20
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Rob and Jason are joined by Conor Hoekstra. They first talk about new and updated libraries in Boost and Herb Sutter's trip report covering news from the recent virtual ISO plenary meeting where the first new features were voted into C++23. Then they talk to Conor about some of his recent conference talks on Algorithm Intuition and Concepts vs typeclasses.
News
- Butano: a modern C++ high level engine for the GBA
- New Boost libraries in v1.75
- Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)
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- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
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- Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
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Fuzz Testing on the GPU
November 27, 2020
•64m
Rob and Jason are joined by Artem Dinaburg and Ryan Eberhardt. They first talk about a new version of CMake that was just released, an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup and another month of new ISO papers. Then they talk to Artem and Ryan who talk about fuzz testing, including a new fuzz testing project being worked at Trail of Bits to enable fuzz testing on the GPU.
News
- Cmake 3.19 available for download
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- November Monthly Mailing
Links
- Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
- The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing: Have We Solved This One?
- Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second
- DeepState - Parameterized Unit Testing Framework
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- Remill - Library of CPU instruction semantics
- Anvill - Tool to make translated bitcode look closer to what a compiler would emit
- Rellic - Translates LLVM bitcode to C using Clang's AST library
Sponsors
- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- PVS-Studio: analyzing pull requests in Azure DevOps using self-hosted agents
- Why it is important to apply static analysis for open libraries that you add to your project
- Use code JetBrainsForCppCast during checkout at JetBrains.com for a 25% discount
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