Standard Library Hardening

11/04/2025 58 min Episodio 396
Standard Library Hardening

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Episode Synopsis

Louis Dionne joins Phil and Timur. Louis talks to us about his role as code owner of libc++ (clang's standard library implementation) and the standard library hardening proposal that was just accepted into C++26, why this is important, and what you can do even today.
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Links

P3471R4 - "Standard Library Hardening"
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