Shafik Yaghmour

Compiler Engineer at Intel. This is a personal blog. The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

Articles by category: C++

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2023

Auto Auto Auto » 29 Aug 2023

Let's enumerate the UB » 09 Jul 2023

2022

Exploring Clangs Enum implementation and How we Catch Undefined Behavior » 15 Nov 2022

Enums In C++, Choice is Oft Beguiled » 12 Nov 2022

C++ initialization, arrays and lambdas oh my! » 20 Sep 2022

2021

The Usual Arithmetic Confusions » 30 Dec 2021

CppCon 2021 Trip Report » 31 Oct 2021

Down with typename » 07 Jan 2021

Is Zero a Butterfly? » 03 Jan 2021

2020

Maximal Munch and C++ » 28 Dec 2020

C++20 and [[nodiscard]] in the library » 13 Dec 2020

CppCon 2020 Trip Report » 21 Sep 2020

2019

Where to Get Started Learing C++ and What Resources to Use » 05 Sep 2019

Exploring Undefined Behavior Using Constexpr » 11 May 2019

C++ Poll for April 12th 2019, Multicharacter Literals and Invalid Escape Sequences » 12 Apr 2019

C++ Poll for February 18th 2019, Multiple Member Functions Declarations on One Line » 18 Feb 2019

C++ Poll for February 14th 2019, Injected Class Names » 14 Feb 2019

C++ Poll for February 6th 2019, Alternative Tokens C and C++ » 06 Feb 2019

C++ Poll for February 3rd 2019, unsigned char and Indeterminate Values » 03 Feb 2019

C++ Poll for January 27th 2019, std::abs and unsigned values » 27 Jan 2019

2018

C++ Poll for December 29th 2018, Conditional Expressions and throw » 29 Dec 2018

C++ Poll for December 21th 2018, The Funny Case of Casting NaN to int » 21 Dec 2018

C++ Poll for December 20th 2018, Default Template Argument and Maximal Munch » 20 Dec 2018

C++ Poll for December 4th 2018, New Expression and Size Conversions » 04 Dec 2018

This is Just to Say for C++ Compilers » 29 Nov 2018

C++ Poll for November 14th 2018, std::min and std::max and who's on first? » 14 Nov 2018

C++ Poll for November 6th 2018, reinterpret_cast and string literals » 06 Nov 2018

C++ Poll for September 16th 2018, Post-increment and bit-field overflow » 16 Sep 2018

C++ Poll for August 28th 2018, Values outside of Enumerators » 28 Aug 2018

C++ Poll for June 26th 2018, Using Aggregate Member During Aggregate Initialization » 28 Aug 2018

C++ Poll for June 18th 2018, std::string and the Case of the Assigned Integer » 22 Jul 2018

C++ Poll for June 22th 2018, Which is a Valid Aliasing » 22 Jun 2018

C++ Poll for June 18th 2018, std::vector and the Case of the Deleted Move Constructor » 18 Jun 2018

C++ Poll for June 15th 2018, C++20 gets C99 Designated Initializers (which are valid) » 15 Jun 2018