Category Archives: C++

Podcasts: Scott Meyers on C++0x/Johan Bezem on Misra

Software Engineering radio recently had two episodes which are of particular interest to the C/C++ developer. First Scott Meyers gives a nice high-level overview on the features of the upcoming C++0x standard covering Lambda expressions, Uniform initialization, Initializer lists, threading … Continue reading

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Eclipse CDT language mappings

Eclipse/CDT fails to parse some file? You don”t see anything wrong with it, neither does the compiler? Still CDT underlines parts or all of a file to mark a parse error? The most probable cause is that your file has … Continue reading

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Adding new sites to the eclipse updater “hangs”

Just for the record: If adding a new site to your eclipse updater seems to hang/times out (entry is always “pending…”), its most probably not a problem with the update site itself but rather some firewall interfering. Make sure you … Continue reading

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Installing a gcc4.4 snapshot on Ubuntu

The upcoming gcc4.4 release adds a few more C++0x features (initializer lists, auto typed variables, defaulted and deleted functions, strongly typed enums, …) to the in this regard still very incomplete g++. To be able to play with it one … Continue reading

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Eclipse CDT 6 Milestone 5

The final release of CDT6 is still a few month ahead (scheduled for ~June) but there are already public milestone builds available. I haven’t played much with M5 but one thing that directly caught my attention is that you no … Continue reading

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Elegant human readable enums

While reading the source of some FOSS project i noticed that the authors have come up with a nice way to get human readable enums through the use of the “stringification feature” of the C/C++ preprocessor. The trick is that … Continue reading

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Overload

I recently discover “Overload” – a publication done bi-monthly by the ACCU (Association of C & C++ Users). It’s focus is on C++ and software engineering in general. The overall quality of the articles is quite good and they also … Continue reading

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