Tavian Barnes

Tavian Barnes has asked 52 questions and find answers to 45 problems.

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PhD student at the University of Waterloo. Former senior developer at Microsoft Research Montréal. @tavianator on your favourite social network.

Tavian Barnes questions

Is there a way to SFINAE based on available overloads in the current class?
Is it possible to merge weak symbols like vtables/typeinfo across RTLD_LOCAL'ly loaded libraries?
Clang link-time optimization with replaced operator new causes mismatched free()/delete in valgrind
Aliasing of otherwise equivalent signed and unsigned types
Why can't gcc vectorize this straight-line code?
java.lang.Class generics and wildcards
Why isn't a conversion to "GenericType<?>" allowed here?
Is it safe to wait for asynchronous work by joining in the destructor?
Is there a gcc option to print the target triplet when cross-compiling?
Custom deserialization on top of reflective deserialization with Jackson

Tavian Barnes answers

Is there a way to create qualifier-preserving functions in C?
Is const_casting a mutable field safe?
Guice Generic Provider (the Provider itself is generic, not the class it's binding to)
Why bother using a float / double literal when not needed?
C++ const semantics for a reference
Bison, C++ GLR parsing: how to force shift\reduce conflict?
What is the instruction that gives branchless FP min and max on x86?
constexpr and CRTP: compiler disagreement
Why was the register keyword created?
Support of std::cbegin() in C++14