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C++17: Attributes--Marc Gregoire

By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 20, 2018 12:29 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Another new feature.

C++17: Attributes

by Marc Gregoire

From the article:

C++17 introduces three new code attributes:

  • [[fallthrough]]
  • [[maybe_unused]]
  • [[nodiscard]]

The first one was discussed in detail in my C++17: Fallthrough in switch statements blog post. The others are briefly explains below...

Quick Q: Accessing protected members in a derived class

By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 18, 2018 12:06 PM | Tags: intermediate

Quick A: Only your own type can be accessed.

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Accessing protected members in a derived class

You can only access protected members in instances of your type (or derived from your type).
You cannot access protected members of an instance of a parent or cousin type.

In your case, the Derived class can only access the b member of a Derived instance, not of a different Base instance.

Changing the constructor to take a Derived instance will also solve the problem.

Hello CMake!--Arne Mertz

By Adrien Hamelin | May 28, 2018 01:14 PM | Tags: intermediate community

Do you use it?

Hello CMake!

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

Since I have mentioned CMake in a handful of past blog posts, it is time to give a short introduction for those that don’t know it yet.

CMake is one of the most popular build systems for C++ out there. One of the main reasons probably is that it is cross-platform: It does not build the project itself but operates a platform-specific system. That means it can generate Makefiles, ninja-build files, or project files for Visual Studio or Xcode, to name just a few...

Error Handling and std::optional--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | May 24, 2018 12:56 PM | Tags: intermediate c++17

Do you have a prefered way?

Error Handling and std::optional

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

In my last two posts in the C++17 STL series, I covered how to use std::optional. This wrapper type (also called “vocabulary type”) is handy when you’d like to express that something is ‘nullable’ and might be ‘empty’. For example, you can return std::nullopt to indicate that the code generated an error… but it this the best choice?

std::accumulate vs. std::reduce--Simon Brand

By Adrien Hamelin | May 22, 2018 01:04 PM | Tags: stl intermediate

Old vs new.

std::accumulate vs. std::reduce

by Simon Brand

From the article:

std::accumulate has been a part of the standard library since C++98. It provides a way to fold a binary operation (such as addition) over an iterator range, resulting in a single value. std::reduce was added in C++17 and looks remarkably similar. This post will explain the difference between the two and when to use one or the other...

Quick Q: typedef pointer const weirdness

By Adrien Hamelin | May 18, 2018 11:15 AM | Tags: intermediate

Quick A: Don't hide pointers in typedefs.

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typedef pointer const weirdness

Note that

typedef int* intptr;
const intptr x;

is not the same as:

const int* x;

intptr is pointer to int. const intptr is constant pointer to int, not pointer to constant int.

so, after a typedef pointer, i can't make it const to the content anymore?

There are some ugly ways, such as gcc's typeof macro:

typedef int* intptr;
intptr dummy;
const typeof(*dummy) *x;

but, as you see, it's pointless if you know the type behind intptr.

C++ Weekly Episode 115: Compile Time ARM Emulator—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | May 14, 2018 02:47 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency c++17

Episode 115 of C++ Weekly.

Compile Time ARM Emulator

by Jason Turner

About the show:

This episode of C++ Weekly demonstrates a compile time ARM CPU emulator using C++17 constexpr. No special tricks were necessary to accomplish this feat, merely following a rule of "constexpr everything that is reasonable." The code is portable and currently compiles with GCC and Clang in about 2 seconds for simple compile-time test cases.