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The http_proto::parser uses a circular buffer internally, which sometimes causes HTTP message bodies to span across two buffers. Previously, this required copying data into a temporary buffer for chunked parsing, ensuring continuous memory access.

Throughout Q3 2024, my work was primarily focused on two projects: MrDocs, and Clang.

During this quarter, I have continued to dedicate my efforts to the development of MrDocs, a tool aimed at revolutionizing the generation of reference documentation from C++ code and javadoc comments.

In the previous quarter, publish_release.py included features to support the Fastly CDN at archives.boost.io. This quarter, that functionality was put into action with the release of Boost 1.86.0, and it was a chance to fine-tune and improve the script. More error checking.

Decimal (https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal) is a ground-up implementation of the IEEE 754 Decimal Floating Point types in C++14, and is co-authored by Chris Kormanyos.

This is still verbose, and has 3 points where an error can happen: in format_opts , in format_sql and in execute . Handling these 3 without exceptions is much more involved.

I’ve spent the last quarter developing a successor to the C++ stdlib in Safe C++, the proposal from Sean Baxter to add borrow-checking semantics to C++.

Made visitation exclusive-locked within certain boost::concurrent_flat_set operations to allow for safe mutable modification of elements ( PR#265 , to be released in Boost 1.87.0). This is relevant for the work on Boost.Flyweight discussed below.

I am happy to announce that the C++ Alliance has formed a partnership with Sean Baxter, a renowned engineer, to develop the Safe C++ Extensions proposal .

This quarter, my primary focus was on MrDocs. To that end, I’m happy to say that the P0 milestone for MrDocs has been reached!

At C++Now 2024, I gave my first full-length conference talk, titled “Unit testing an expression template library in C++20”. The slides are up at this link . As of the time of writing, the talk has not yet been uploaded to YouTube.

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