The following is an overview of some projects I have been working on in the last few months: Boost.Beast Aside from addressing user issues and typical bug fixes within the project, this quarter I primarily focused on: Resolving platform and compiler specific warnings. Rectifying SSL builds in CI. Documenting certain pitfalls and subtleties in some operations. Boost.Http.Proto and Boost.Buffers I’ve recently started contributing to the Http.Proto project. My contributions focus on...

Over the past few months I have been working on libraries that are in various stages of the boost lifecycle: Newly Accepted Libraries Charconv Charconv (https://github.com/boostorg/charconv) had it’s review period from 15 - 25 Jan 2024. The review manager for this review was Chris Kormanyos, and he did an excellent job. I want to thank the boost community because I received a lot of good feedback during the review period, and a number of bugs were squashed. The first release of the library...

My primary focus this quarter was on clang – in particular, C++ standards conformance (including implementing resolutions to defect reports I’ve submitted), bug fixes, and various refactoring of the AST. I was also granted write access to the LLVM project repository this quarter, which has allowed me to significantly increase my output. To that end, I submitted/merged a number of patches: #89618 [Clang][Sema] Remove unused function after #88731 #89605 [libc++][NFC] Fix unparenthesized c...

During Q1 2024, I’ve been working in the following areas: Boost.Unordered Reviewed Braden’s work on optimization of emplace(k, v) calls (PR#230, released in Boost 1.85.0). With this optimization, statements such as: m.emplace(0,"zero"); won’t create a temporary (0, "zero") value if the element with key 0 already exists. This is particularly relevant when dynamic memory allocation is involved (for instance, if mapped_type is std::string in the example above). The implementation of this f...

In the past few months, I’ve been busy getting up to speed on the slate of proposed-for-Boost libraries: Boost.Buffers and Boost.Http.Proto. The first real task was getting the CI setup for that and we chose to use an in-house solution. I was never really an expert in GitHub Actions nor CI so there was a definite learning curve in how to debug CI issues and what’s an effective use of time versus not. But more importantly I was able to discern what was and what wasn’t important to automate i...