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By Blog Staff | May 7, 2013 11:35 AM | Tags: basics
Head on over to the C/C++ Cafe for:
Introduction to the C++11 feature: delegating constructors
by sumi_cj
Excerpt:
In C++98, if a class has multiple constructors, these constructors usually perform identical initialization steps before executing individual operations. In the worst scenario, the identical initialization steps are copied and pasted in every constructor. See the following example: ...
By Blog Staff | May 7, 2013 07:41 AM | Tags: None
Anthony Williams just posted another nice trip report on the recent standards meeting in Bristol, as well as a few words on the ACCU conference held back-to-back with the ISO meeting:
ACCU 2013 and the C++ Standards Meeting
by Anthony Williams
This year's ACCU conference was at a new venue: the Marriott hotel in Bristol. This is a bit closer to home for me than the previous venue in Oxford, which made the trip there and back more comfortable. As ever, the conference itself was enjoyable, educational and exhausting in equal measure.
This year was also BSI's turn to host the Spring ISO C++ committee meeting, which was conveniently arranged to be the week following ACCU, in the same hotel. Having not attended a meeting since the last time the committee met in the UK, I was glad to be able to attend this too. ...
By Blog Staff | May 6, 2013 11:26 PM | Tags: intermediate basics
Head on over to the C/C++ Cafe for:
Introduction to the C++11 feature: extended friend declaration
by FangLu
Excerpt:
The extended
frienddeclaration feature is newly introduced in the C++11 standard. In this article, I will introduce this feature and provide some examples on how to use this feature.
Firstly, let's see why this feature is added into C++11. ...
By Blog Staff | May 6, 2013 06:46 PM | Tags: intermediate basics
Herb Sutter is resuming his Guru of the Week series of problem-and-solution articles about coding in C++, with the intent to gradually update the 88 existing issues and write a few more along the way.
The first problem was posted today:
GotW #1: Variable Initialization -- or Is It? (3/10)
by Herb Sutter
This first problem highlights the importance of understanding what you write. Here we have a few simple lines of code — most of which mean something different from all the others, even though the syntax varies only slightly.
The solution is coming "soon"...
By Blog Staff | May 6, 2013 04:43 PM | Tags: advanced
The recent 2013 European Clang/LLVM developer meeting talk videos and/or slides are now available here.
Here are a few of the talks of interest to C++ developers. All have videos available except the last. Check out the page for details and a full talk list.
Keynotes
Optimization in LLVM - Numbers, A Case Study, and Looking Forward
Chandler Carruth (Google)Talks
clang-format - Automatic formatting for C++
Daniel Jasper (Google)Performing Source-to-Source Transformations with Clang
Olaf Krzikalla (TU Dresden)Run-time tracking of uninitialized data with MemorySanitizer
Evgeniy Stepanov (Google)LLVM on IBM POWER processors: a progress report
Ulrich Weigand (IBM)Tutorials
How to implement an LLVM Assembler
Simon Cook (Embecosm)The Clang AST (slides only)
Manuel Klimek (Google)
For more talks, and video/slide links, head over to the site.
By Blog Staff | May 1, 2013 04:39 PM | Tags: intermediate basics
With a nice Quick A by Morwenn that not only gives the right answer as of today, but is current with a feature voted into C++14 just two weeks ago that lets you drop the ()'s:
static constexpr variable vs. function
Is there a difference between declaring floating point constant as a
static constexprvariable and a function as in example below, or is it just a matter of style?class MY_PI { public: static constexpr float MY_PI_VAR = 3.14f; static constexpr float MY_PI_FUN() { return 3.14f; } }
By Blog Staff | May 1, 2013 12:11 PM | Tags: advanced
If you're familiar with functional language styles and you want an advanced look at how your favorite functional styles are supported in modern C++, with a dash of Haskell, check out these three videos by Bartosz Milewski:
Functional Patterns in C++ (slides)
by Bartosz Milewski
Part 1, Functors: First the introduction to some common functional patterns like Functor, which, surprisingly pops up everywhere. I'll show the example of a
unique_ptrand avectoras Functors. Of course, this is only in preparation for asynchronous functors.Part 2, Currying, Applicative: A little digression to Haskell and the Maybe functor and the explanation of currying. Then I'll show you the Applicative Functor pattern. This is, of course, in preparation for for the asynchronous applicative functor pattern.
Part 3, Asynchronous API, Monoid, Monad: The encapsulation of asynchronous API that doesn't lead to inversion of control and spaghetti code. Very natural example of a Monad Pattern.
Interestingly, Bartosz' talk ends with a plea for (essentially) future.then and a C#-style await... both of which are under active consideration in the C++ standards committee as part of a potential near-term C++ technical specification on concurrency and parallelism.
By MichaelWong | Apr 30, 2013 11:45 AM | Tags: None
There's still time to go to:
Advanced Developers C++ 2013
May 7-8, 2013
Bad Aibling, Germany
Sessions are presented in either English or German. While the conference has many Windows-focused topics, a number of the sessions are of general interest to C++ developers.
Here are highlights from the Sessions page:
Trends and Future of C++ Standard and ISOCPP.org
Transactional Memory in C++
Michael Wong, IBM, and subgroup chair of ISO C++ SG5 (Transactional Memory)Keynote: Building Modern Device Apps with C++
Building and Consuming Cloud Services with C++
Steve Teixeira, MicrosoftWarum wird Code so wie er ist? [Why does code get the way it does?]
Holger Kolb, DEVCOLEinfacheres C++ mit C++11 [Simpler C++ with C++11]
Peter Sommerlad, FHO HSR Hochschule für TechnikSicher sein oder sicher fühlen? -- Sicheren C++ Code schreiben [Be secure or feel secure? -- Writing secure C++ code]
Oliver Niehus, MicrosoftPerformance-Optimierung für parallelen C++ Code auf Windows [Performance optimizing parallel C++ code on Windows]
Programmieren und Optimieren auf Xeon Phi [Programming and Optimizing for Xeon Phi]
Michael Steyer, Intel
By Blog Staff | Apr 30, 2013 07:38 AM | Tags: None
Part 3 of Michael Wong's trip report:
The view from C++ Standard meeting April 2013 Part 3
by Michael Wong
In this series that looks at C++14 content, we looked at features from Language and Library for C++14. Now we will look at Concurrency which is the other group that contributed features for C++14. In reality, some of the features from Language and Library also came from Concurrency. ...
By Blog Staff | Apr 26, 2013 02:37 PM | Tags: intermediate
Building C++ to target Javascript (e.g., asm.js) and execute C++ in the browser is becoming quite the popular indoor sport. Here's a current presentation and experience report:
C++ on the Web: Run your big 3D Game in the browser! (slides)
by Andre Weissflog
Head of Development, Berlin
Bigpoint GmbHMy presentation about porting large C/C++ code bases to the browser (emscripten, flascc, Google Native Client)
From the Wrap-up slide:
- You can run big C/C++ code bases ("a million lines of code") in the browser.
- Javascript is already fast enough for many types of games.
- Massive performance improvements happening right now (better code generation, JS engines better at running generated code, asm.js...)
- ...