Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Type Erasure, boost::mutex, And The617

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The boost::mutex class is certainly not considered harmful. It’s jolly good, especially the way it, and its companion boost::condition , w...
Saturday, 30 May 2009

How Not To Develop On Windows

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This is a HOW-TO on writing Windows software, including GUI software, without using a Windows box at all except for final testing. Among oth...
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009

PathCanonicalize Versus What It Says On The Tin

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This post contains MathML mark-up, which may not display correctly on some browsers. (And if you’re wondering how to do MathML in Blogger , ...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Unicode Is The One True God, And UTF-8 Is His Prophet

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One common anti-pattern in the Win32 API is the one whereby something is done wrong the first time, then later re-implemented properly — but...
Thursday, 23 April 2009

One Template To Rule Them All

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How do you write a template that can be instantiated for any type? Here’s a header file which purports to implement a tracing (logging) me...
Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Debugging The Invisible

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The Empeg codebase, and the Empeg coding style for embedded C++, don’t use C++ exceptions. The original reason was that ARM support in GCC w...
Sunday, 12 April 2009

Autoconf, #ifdef, and #if

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The standard macros available in GNU Autoconf for “checking for...” C/C++ functions and header files, AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_CHECK_HEADERS, ...