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December 2022 - C++ Team Blog

vcpkg Documentation Moves to Microsoft Docs Platform

December 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022 12/14/22
Augustin Popa
vcpkg Documentation Moves to Microsoft Docs Platform As of today, the vcpkg documentation has a new home at https://learn.microsoft.com/vcpkg. This is the platform that most Microsoft documentation is hosted on and comes with many features that make it easier to search, navigate, author, and review documentation. All current vcpkg articles ...

Standards conformance improvements to /Gw in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Kyle Brady
The /Gw switch enables the linker to optimize global data to reduce binary size. As part of the 17.5 Preview 2 release a new flag, /Zc:checkGwOdr[-], has been added to improve C++ standards conformance when using /Gw. Previously, when using /Gw, certain One Definition Rule (ODR) violations were being ignored and would not cause an error. The ...

Improving the State of Debug Performance in C++

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Cameron DaCamara
In this blog we will explore one change the MSVC compiler has implemented in an effort to improve the codegen quality of applications in debug mode. We will highlight what the change does, and how it could be extended for the future. If debug performance is something you care about for your C++ projects, then Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 is...