AaronBallman

The WG14 (C) meetings ended yesterday and I'm happy to report on two of my papers:

We now know how to add one to something, which is a welcome change (no implementation has to do anything, just purely a funny wording cleanup): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3323.pdf

More importantly, zero-length operations on null pointers are no longer UB, which closes a *ton* of problematic UB in practice around things like memset(null, 0, 0); or null - null: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3322.pdf

If you're interested in this sort of thing, my keynote from the 2024 LLVM Developer Meeting is now live at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKY7OLLZw1w

It's a talk about the state of Clang as a C and C++ compiler, what sort of things we've been working on, how conformance is going, what we may want to work on in the future, etc.

Despite the cold, it's been very pretty outside lately, especially at night.

#SilentSunday #Maine

If you'd like to learn about what's new in C23, I recorded the talk I was supposed to give at NDC Tech Town in Kongsberg, but couldn't because the airlines couldn't reliably get me there in time.

https://blog.aaronballman.com/2023/10/whats-new-in-c-in-2023/

Do you have (or know of) a child who might be interested in collecting stamps? I could pretty easily put together a care package to get some young person interested in the hobby. If they have a particular topic they find interesting, I could even try to primarily focus on those stamps. But I have ZERO need for this much overstock, so if I can send bits of it along to someone else to spark their interest, let me know.

Seeing tech companies do mass layoffs right now reminds me of just how stupid big tech execs are: sell your labor at the cheapest possible point so that you can turn around and hire labor at the most expensive point possible. Brilliant strategy for the folks who think "vision" is thinking about next quarter.