Brian Bi

Brian Bi has asked 88 questions and find answers to 586 problems.

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Physics & chemistry major and C++ programmer formerly at Google and Citadel Securities. Opinions are mine and not those of my employer. I can be reached by email at [email protected].

Brian Bi questions

Why can't you define a class or function in a non-enclosing scope?
What is the definition of "dependent name" in C++?
Do all IRC servers send 005 RPL_ISUPPORT?
Is it possible to use libtiff to decode CCITT-encoded data when the length is not known?
Why is there an `equivalent` value for std::strong_ordering?
Why is value initialization so named?
What does the name of the Turbo Pascal "crt" unit stand for?
How to understand the definition of "manifestly constant-evaluated"?
Sanitizing untrusted HTML5
Why do shifts have lower precedence than addition and subtraction in C?

Brian Bi answers

Are repeated declarations of a template with a type-template-parameter defaulted to a closure type a violation of ODR?
Is there a way to have an operator= for an enum?
Overalignment of an existing type in c++17
Herb Sutter's article on making virtual functions private
Why does queue have front but priority queue has top in stl?
Why are functions generated on use of template have "weak" as symbol type?
constexpr-ness of std::initializer_list::size() vs std::array::size()
Compilers work differently for overload resolution with user-defined conversion to rvalue reference
placement new and storage reuse
Move elision in explicit object member functions