The old-days way of acquiring memory resources is to have a pair of malloc and free calls. The C++’s addition, the new and delete keywords simplified the syntax, but did not eliminate the problem of proper memory management. The Problem Here is a typical approach: you create some place for your data, get a pointer, … Continue reading “Avoiding naked new in modern C++”
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Iterators vs. auto in C++
The range-based for loop that is available since the C++ 11 standard, is a wonderful mean of making the code compact and clean. This post is totally dedicated to a single go: to show the difference between iterating using STL iterators and using for ranges. Here’s a simple code that creates a vector of integers … Continue reading “Iterators vs. auto in C++”
A range-for loop in C++
The so-called range-based for loop appeared in the C++ 11 standard, together with the auto keyword gives us a very powerful and idiomatic way of looping over things. Let’s start with a simple array. #include <iostream> int main() { int odd_data[] = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}; for (auto x : odd_data) std::cout << x << “\n”; } Here, the for loop goes over all the elements of the odd_data array, and you … Continue reading “A range-for loop in C++”
constexpr in C++ 11 and C++ 14
In the previous post, we were talking about the constexpr keyword in modern C++. It was added to the C++ 11 standard, but in C++ 14, it got a very nice addition. In particular, you can do more in constexpr functions now. Consider the following program that wants to pre-compute a factorial of 5. #include <iostream> … Continue reading “constexpr in C++ 11 and C++ 14”
constexpr in C++
The constexpr keyword is a relatively new addition to C++. You need to use the C++11 standard in order to compile the following programs: g++ -std=c++11 test.cpp Let’s examine what the keyword is about. There’s no difficulty to split it into words to get the meaning: constant expression. In practice, constant expression means that the … Continue reading “constexpr in C++”