Unicode Progress and C++/C Study Group

Rob and JeanHeyd are joined by Aaron Ballman and Peter Brett, both members of the ISO C++ committee. They first talk about an extension for Visual Studio and Visual Code for visualizing struct layout and a blog post proposing a safer boolean type. Then they talk about Aaron and Peter about progress being made at virtual ISO meetings and the upcoming virtual Plenary meeting.

News

• StructLayout Visual C++ Extension
• Fun with Concepts: Do You Even Lift, Bool?
• Meeting C++: My thoughts on "The... Community?"

Links

• ISO C++ October 2020 Mailing
• P1787: Declarations and where to find them
• WG21 SG16 Unicode study group
• Editing the C Standard

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