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Simplify Your Code With Rocket Science: C++20’s Spaceship Operator

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today's post is by Cameron ...

Guaranteed Copy Elision Does Not Elide Copies

This post is also available on Simon Brand's blog C++17 merged in a paper called Guaranteed copy elision through simplified value categories. The changes mandate that no copies or moves take place in some situations where they were previously allowed, e.g.: You can see this behavior in compiler versions Visual Studio 2017 15.6, Clang...