Proxy 3.1.0 Release

What's Changed

• Added macro PRO_DEF_FREE_AS_MEM_DISPATCH to facilitate authoring a dispatch type of a free function, while providing accessibility through a member function.
• Improved accessibility for reflection. Specifically,
  • Added support for "accessors" in a custom reflector type. See function template proxy_reflect for more details.
  • Added support for "indirect" reflections, similar to conventions. See alias template basic_facade_builder::add_reflection for more details.
  • Added the named requirements ProReflection.
• Improved code generation in non-optimized builds to facilitate debugging. Specifically,
  • Added assertions against null pointers in proxy::proxy(), proxy_invoke(), and proxy_reflect().
  • Added guidance to encourage compilers to generate code for accessibility, even if they are not used in a binary (see #200 and #202 for more details).
  • Relaxed the named requirements ProAccessible to facilitate implementation of the debugging facilities.
• Added benchmarks for the library. See Analyzing the Performance of the “Proxy” Library for more details.
• Added support for the NVIDIA HPC compiler as per @pedronahum's feedback. Specifically,
  • Fixed unit tests to enable compilation with the NVIDIA HPC compiler.
  • Added a new validation pipeline to ensure it won't regress.
  • Updated README accordingly.
• Fixed unit tests when building with clang-cl on Windows as per @frederick-vs-ja's feedback.
• Improved documentation of some facilities. Specifically,
  • Aligned wording of allocate_proxy() and make_proxy_inplace() with P3401R0.
  • Fixed typo in basic_facade_builder::add_convention by @ggqshr in #190.
  • Improved wording for PRO_DEF_WEAK_DISPATCH as per @Shuenhoy's feedback.
• Revised the semantics of proxy_invoke() and proxy_reflect().
• Improved pipeline infrastructure to facilitate engineering. Specifically,
  • Enabled automated benchmarking for CI builds.
  • Updated macOS image version to 15.
  • Updated Ubuntu image version to 24.04.
  • Improved release pipeline to generate a proxy-{version}.tgz package to facilitate consumption.
• Updated the value of feature test macro __msft_lib_proxy to 202410L.

New Contributors

• @ggqshr made their first contribution in #190

Full Changelog

3.0.0...3.1.0

• Fix broken link by @mingxwa in #161
• Update wording for allocate_proxy and make_proxy_inplace by @mingxwa in #163
• Fix documentation format by @mingxwa in #166
• Reduce semantics of proxy_invoke by @mingxwa in #167
• Update Ubuntu pipeline image by @mingxwa in #168
• Add benchmarks by @mingxwa in #169
• Resolve warnings in unit tests by @mingxwa in #173
• Pump library version by @mingxwa in #172
• Add assertion for proxy_invoke() and proxy_reflect() by @mingxwa in #175
• [Build] Update macOS to 15 by @mingxwa in #176
• Improve benchmarking command line by @mingxwa in #177
• Force enable EBO on MSBuild when building with clang-cl by @mingxwa in #179
• Resolve build issues for NVHPC by @mingxwa in #182
• Generate benchmarking report by @mingxwa in #181
• Stabilize benchmarking report by @mingxwa in #183
• Implement PRO_DEF_FREE_AS_MEM_DISPATCH by @mingxwa in #189
• Update add_convention.md by @ggqshr in #190
• Implement accessibility support for reflection by @mingxwa in #191
• Add pipeline for NVHPC by @mingxwa in #197
• Improve accessibility in debugging by @mingxwa in #200
• Refactor unit tests by @mingxwa in #201
• Improve accessibility in debugging for free functions by @mingxwa in #202
• Improve release pipeline by @mingxwa in #203
• Improve wording for PRO_DEF_WEAK_DISPATCH by @mingxwa in #204
• Fix release pipeline by @mingxwa in #205
• Fix NVIDIA trade name by @mingxwa in #206