Monday, November 25, 2019

Process invocation will forever be broken

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Invoking new processes is, at its core, a straightforward operation. Pretty much everything you need to know to understand it can be seen in...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Some intricacies of ABI stability

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There is a big discussion ongoing in the C++ world about ABI stability. People want to make a release of the standard that does a big ABI br...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

What is -pipe and should you use it?

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Every now and then you see people using the -pipe compiler argument. This is particularly common on vintage handwritten makefiles. Meson ev...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

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Last week the laptop I use for macOS development said that there is an XCode update available. I tried to install it but it said that there ...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

A look into building C++ modules with a scanner

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At CppCon there was a presentation on building C++ modules using a standalone dependency scanner executable provided by the compiler toolch...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

New Meson mugs, get them while they're hot!

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Since there is no Meson swag available, I decided to make some. Here is the first one. Now sadly there is no web store and shipping cer...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

C++ modules with a batch compiler feasibility study

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In our previous blog post an approach for building C++ modules using a batch compiler model was proposed . The post raised a lot of discussi...