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November 2020 - C++ Team Blog

Conditionally Trivial Special Member Functions

November 20, 2020 Nov 20, 2020 11/20/20
Sy Brand
The C++ standards committee is currently focusing on adding features to the language which can simplify code. One small example of this in C++20 is conditionally trivial special member functions, which we added support for in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8. Its benefit isn’t immediately obvious unless you’ve been deep down the rabbit hole...

C++20 Features in Visual Studio 2019 versions 16.7 and 16.8

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20
Daniel Griffing
What’s New We have continued our efforts to implement C++20 in the MSVC toolset, with noteworthy progress being made in VS (Visual Studio) 2019 v16.7 and VS 2019 v16.8. This blog post lists the features implemented since the C++20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 16.1 through 16.6 blog post. This blog post will specifically focus on...