C++

Several Red Hat engineers recently attended the JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meetings in Oulu, Finland. This post focuses on the sessions of SG1 (the standards committee sub-group 1 - for concurrency and parallelism) as well as on coroutines-related sessions. Jason already gave an overview of the meeting in his post . SG1 prioritized proposals and issues affecting the (expected) C++17 standard, followed by proposals targeting the Concurrency TS or a future revision of the Parallelism TS. We also made some...

A new version of the OpenMP standard, 4.5, has been released in November 2015 and brings several new constructs to the users. OpenMP is an API consisting of compiler directives and library routines for high level parallelism in C, C++ and Fortran programs. The upcoming version of GCC adds support for this newest version of the standard. This post highlights some of the latest features, changes, and "gotcha's" to look out for. Taskloop construct Diving right in, the 'taskloop' construct...

As a C, C++, or Fortran developer, you want easy access to supported versions of the latest and greatest tools, features and standards support. You also want to write and test your application once for deployment to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At Red Hat Summit this year I'll be giving a talk on our latest development tools, including news on Red Hat Developer Toolset . Your first opportunity to hear that talk, however, will be at the...