A blog post about pointers and references? What kind of newbie am I? Well, the kind with 20+ years of programming experience that is not afraid to admit his ignorance, apparently? on the other hand; maybe its not that easy? maybe I didn’t paying that much attention when it was explained to me? maybe things Read more about Personal preferences for the use of pointers and references[…]
Let me first say: I did not come up with the title myself, but have to credit it to cpplang @ slack.com. Unfortunately I forgot who actually said it. So what is so interesting about initializing a variable you might ask? Lets take a simple struct: struct Foo { int x; int y; }; And Read more about C++, where initializing variables is the topic of debate, by experts.[…]
Disclaimer: this is a work-in-progress, is bound to contain some mistakes and the code was only briefly tested. Use at you own discretion. In a previous blog post called ‘std::shared_ptr<> broken?‘ I talked about the problems of using a std::shared_ptr<> from more then one thread at the same time. There I mentioned the reading/writing to Read more about Introducing mt_shared_ptr<>, a shared pointer for multi-threaded use[…]
The powerpoint that I used for the CPPCON 2017 Tripreport at ThermoFisher Scientific can be found here.
Just watched the first episode of Jason Turner‘s C++ Weekly, very nice, I can get addicted to that 🙂 I never considered the complexities that a header-only library could introduce (such as having no good place to initialize static variables 🙂
Executors So what are executors? Executors sit between tasks and their execution-context, the way iterators sit between collections and algorithms. Executors could potentially do many things, to name some: parallelize tasks (over multiple cores for example) distribute tasks (over multiple machines or to gpu’s for example) sequentialize tasks (stitch tasks together over time) prioritize tasks Read more about Executors 101[…]
This is a post on the initial work on the x86-to-z80 translator (or re-assembler as some prefer to call it). The work is currently suspended pending an investigation into creating an actual clang back-end. Here is a link to the original content.
I’m really hyped about flying to Washington alone, never been on an international flight by my self. more to follow… (testing the blog from mobile)
Updated Debugview++ with a few new features tailing urls now also works if https certificates are broken crop to selected is experimental (use with care) more descriptive termination messages Â
Some time ago, I decided I had an object I wanted to share the ownership of. Here is a very contrived example: class Foo { public: void SetInfo(const std::string& value) { info = value; } std::string GetInfo() { return info; } private: std::string info; }; class Bar { void SetFoo(std::shared_ptr<Foo> aFoo) { foo = aFoo; Read more about std::shared_ptr<> broken?[…]