C++

Clang tools and newer versions of GCC can be quite helpful for better warnings and error messages during C/C++ development. This article shows how you can easily install the latest supported Clang 5 and GCC 7 compilers using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also provides tips for working with software collections.

At the summer 2018 ISO C++ standards committee meeting, proposals for new features for C++2a were coming quickly from the Evolution Working Group. Red Hatters covered core, library, and parallelism/concurrency. Read about the new C++ core language features that were accepted at this meeting.

To detect common programming errors, GCC 8 contains a number of new warnings and enhancements to existing checkers to help find non-obvious bugs in C and C++ code. This article focuses on those that deal with inadvertent string truncation and discusses some of the approaches to avoiding the underlying problems.

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This year's Winter ISO C++ Standard Committee meeting was held in March in Jacksonville, Florida. A number of larger features were discussed. This report focuses on the topics of interest to the Concurrency and Parallelism Study Group (SG1).

Following is a trip report from the March 2018 ISO C++ Meeting (Core Language) held in Jacksonville, Florida. This meeting was mostly about new features for C++20, particularly when and how to merge Technical Specifications into the draft standard. 

This blog is part of a series covering the latest changes and improvements in the Spring 2018 GNU Toolchain Update and components that make up this Toolchain. Apart from the announcement of new releases, however, the features described here are at the bleeding edge of software development in the tools.

This article walks through a list of recommended build flags for when you compile your C or C++ programs with GCC. Do you know which build flags you need to specify in order to obtain the same level of security hardening that GNU/Linux distributions such as Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux use?

This article summarizes work that was done to make GCC 8 more usable by providing easier to understand warning and error messages. Many of these improvements will help you quickly recognize those common silly mistakes.