DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++

Posted Mar 29, 2018 12:06 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++ by marcH
Parent article: DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++

This is the effort to make a safer subset of C++ that can be checked at compile time: http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/

They say 'the rules are designed to be supported by an analysis tool' but I don't know whether there is currently such a tool.

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DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++

Posted Mar 29, 2018 21:26 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

That effort is moribund. The "Lifetime Safety" document in the C++ Core Guidelines is far from complete and has not been updated in any way since December 2015.

DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++

Posted Mar 29, 2018 21:29 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

Correction: if you consider the Core Guidelines as a whole, that's definitely not moribund. However, without lifetime safety analysis it leaves many gaping safety holes, and in some cases is actually a safety regression, not an improvement.