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The Most Vexing Parse: How to Spot It and Fix It Quickly--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 31, 2018 07:22 PM | Tags: advanced

Did you have that problem?

The Most Vexing Parse: How to Spot It and Fix It Quickly

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

Everyone has their little defaults. You know, that little something that they do from time to time and that gets on your nerves, even though they’re otherwise nice people?

For C++, one of these little annoyances is the most vexing parse, well, as its name suggests...

Help the compiler warn you

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 31, 2018 07:14 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17

And make less mistakes.

Help the compiler warn you

by Andrzej Krzemieński

From the article:

Compiler warnings are a very useful tool for detecting bugs in your program. Because you can enable them selectively, and because you can choose to turn them into hard errors on your compiler, you can in fact build a dialect, which is a safer subset of C++...

break and fallthrough--Andrey Karpov

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 31, 2018 07:12 PM | Tags: intermediate community

A classic error:

break and fallthrough

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

We would like to suggest reading the series of articles dedicated to the recommendations on writing code of high quality using the examples of errors found in the Chromium project. This is the second part, which will be devoted to the switch operator and, more precisely, to the problem of a forgotten break operator...

GCC 7.3 released

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 29, 2018 06:45 PM | Tags: community

It continues to improve:

GCC 7.3 released

From the article;

This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation...

Guidelines for constructor and cast design--Jonathan Müller

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 29, 2018 06:31 PM | Tags: intermediate

Interesting indeed!

Guidelines for constructor and cast design

by Jonathan Müller

From the article:

A while back — but sadly not too many blog posts ago — I wrote about explicit constructors and how to handle assignment. In this blog post, I made the assumption that you most likely want to have explicit single argument constructors.

But when do we actually want implicit single argument constructors?

Let’s consider the broader question: How should I design a cast operation for my user-defined type? And how should I design a constructor?

But first, something different: what is the difference between a cast and a constructor?

Do compilers take inline as a hint?--Simon Brand

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 29, 2018 06:29 PM | Tags: performance community

Isn't that a good question?

Do compilers take inline as a hint?

by Simon Brand

From the article:

If you’ve spent any time in C or C++ communities online, you’ve probably seen someone say this:

inline used to be a hint for compilers to inline the definition, but no compilers actually take that into account any more.

You shouldn’t believe everything you see on the internet...