Yuriy Solodkyy

Broken Warnings Theory

December 13th, 2017

Перевод статьи на русском The "broken warnings theory" is a fictional theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of coding practices and bug-checking techniques in 3rd party libraries on new bugs and design anti-patterns. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring warning levels to prevent small problems su

Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

July 21st, 2017

This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a number of improvements to the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler's diagnostics. Most of these improvements are in response to the diagnostics improv

Clang 3.8 in the May release of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen

June 3rd, 2016

This blog post written by Dave Bartolomeo, Yuriy Solodkyy, and Andrew Pardoe We have just released our fifth out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset. As always, this release has been driven by your feedback. While we've heard a lot of feature requests the one's we've heard most frequently are that you want Clang 3.8 and you want x64-hosted co

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1: New Experimental Feature – MPX

January 20th, 2016

Introduction This post is about Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX) support in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2015; content provided by Gautham Beeraka, George Kuan, and Juan Rodriguez from Intel Corporation.    Overview Update 1 for Visual Studio 2015 was announced on November 30, 2015. This update incl

Format Specifiers Checking

June 22nd, 2015

By popular request, in Visual Studio 2015 RTM, we’ve implemented the checking of arguments given to printf/scanf and their variations in the C standard library. You can try the examples from this post in our online compiler.SummaryHere is a list of all the formatting warnings that were introduced:Example 1Consider the following snippet t

Bringing Clang to Windows

May 1st, 2015

As you may know, Visual Studio now supports building Android and iOS applications using Clang. We realize the need of our users to write cross-platform apps and we know that C++ offers massive benefits in the cross-platform arena. Clang has made impressive strides in standards conformance and diagnostics and is fast becoming the preferred C++

Details About Some of the New C++ Language Features

November 12th, 2014

When you read our release notes, you'll notice that we've added a large number of C++ language features. The details of what these features are can be found all over the web, but what purpose they serve might still be nebulous. This article will attempt to explain the origins of and how to use a few of these new language mechanisms for best re