My short 15min talk was about modern compilers. I start with basic introduction, which may be a bit surprising, then I move to C++ standard perspective and undefined behaviors, then there's a part about optimizations and finally I'm covering the ecosystem that has grown around compilers in recent years (sanitizers, 3rd tools based on compilers, etc.). Enjoy!
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GCC 6.1 released [link]
If GCC was released two weeks earlier I would definitely include one slide about how verbose and helpful compilers are nowadays.
Several years ago they were unhelpful and very quiet - even if something was going terribly wrong (and the programmer would discover this in run-time) they were happily compiling assuming that the programmer knows what she's doing.
And now.. what a change. The compilers became so friendly that GCC 6.1 can even let you know that you have unmerged git content in the file!
* direct translation doesn't work :) - "first cats over the fences".
