More Exceptional C++
40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions
Published on 3. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-201-70434-1 (ISBN)
Description
More Exceptional C++ continues where Herb Sutter's best-selling Exceptional C++ left off, delivering 40 puzzles that illuminate the most challenging -- and most powerful -- aspects of C++. More Exceptional C++ offers many new puzzles focused on generic programming and the C++ Standard Template Library, including important techniques such as traits and predicates, as well as key considerations in using standard containers and algorithms -- many of them never covered elsewhere. More Exceptional C++ contains a detailed new section (and two appendices) on optimization in single- and multithreaded environments. It also provides important new insights on crucial topics first introduced in Exceptional C++, including exception safety, generic programming, and memory management. For all C++ programmers.
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Herb Sutter is the author of three highly acclaimed books, Exceptional C++ Style, Exceptional C++, and More Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley). He chairs the ISO C++ standards committee, and is contributing editor and columnist for C/C++ Users Journal. As a software architect for Microsoft, Sutter leads the design of C++ language extensions for .NET programming.
Content
Foreword.
Preface.
Generic Programming and the C++ Standard Library.
Item 1: Switching Streams (2 / 10).
Item 2: Predicates, Part 1: What remove() Removes (4 / 10).
Item 3: Predicates, Part 2: Matters of State (7 / 10).
Item 4: Extensible Templates: Via Inheritance or Traits? (7 / 10).
Item 5: Typename (7 / 10).
Item 6: Containers, Pointers, and Containers That Aren't (5 / 10).
Item 7: Using Vector and Deque (3 / 10).
Item 8: Using Set and Map (5 / 10).
Item 9: Equivalent Code? (5 / 10).
Item 10: Template Specialization and Overloading (6 / 10).
Item 11: Mastermind (8 / 10).
Optimization and Performance.
Item 12: Inline (4 / 10).
Item 13: Lazy Optimization, Part 1: A Plain Old String (2 / 10).
Item 14: Lazy Optimization, Part 2: Introducing Laziness (3 / 10).
Item 15: Lazy Optimization, Part 3: Iterators and References (6 / 10).
Item 16: Lazy Optimization, Part 4: Multi-Threaded Environments (8 / 10).
Exception Safety Issues and Techniques.
Item 17: Constructor Failures, Part 1: Object Lifetimes (4 / 10).
Item 18: Constructor Failures, Part 2: Absorption? (7 / 10).
Item 19: Uncaught Exceptions (6 / 10).
Item 20: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 1: Parameter Evaluation (6 / 10).
Item 21: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 2: What About auto_ptr? (8 / 10).
Item 22: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 1: Copy Assignment (7 / 10).
Item 23: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 2: Inheritance (6 / 10).
Inheritance and Polymorphism.
Item 24: Why Multiple Inheritance? (6 / 10).
Item 25: Emulating Multiple Inheritance (5 / 10).
Item 26: Multiple Inheritance and the Siamese Twin Problem (4 / 10).
Item 27: (Im)pure Virtual Functions (7 / 10).
Item 28: Controlled Polymorphism (3 / 10).
Memory and Resource Management.
Item 29: Using auto_ptr (5 / 10).
Item 30: Smart Pointer Members, Part 1: A Problem with auto_ptr (5 / 10).
Item 31: Smart Pointer Members, Part 2: Toward a ValuePtr (6 / 10).
Free Functions and Macros.
Item 32: Recursive Declarations (6 / 10).
Item 33: Simulating Nested Functions (5 / 10).
Item 34: Preprocessor Macros (4 / 10).
Item 35: #Definition (4 / 10).
Miscellaneous Topics.
Item 36: Initialization (3 / 10).
Item 37: Forward Declarations (3 / 10).
Item 38: Typedef (3 / 10).
Item 39: Namespaces, Part 1: Using-Declarations and Using-Directives (2 / 10).
Item 40: Namespaces, Part 2: Migrating to Namespaces (4 / 10).
Afterword.
Appendixes,
Appendix A. Optimizations That Aren't (In a Multithreaded World).
Appendix B. Test Results for Single- versus Multi-Thread-Safe String Implementations.
Bibliography.
Index. 020170434XT07022001
Preface.
Generic Programming and the C++ Standard Library.
Item 1: Switching Streams (2 / 10).
Item 2: Predicates, Part 1: What remove() Removes (4 / 10).
Item 3: Predicates, Part 2: Matters of State (7 / 10).
Item 4: Extensible Templates: Via Inheritance or Traits? (7 / 10).
Item 5: Typename (7 / 10).
Item 6: Containers, Pointers, and Containers That Aren't (5 / 10).
Item 7: Using Vector and Deque (3 / 10).
Item 8: Using Set and Map (5 / 10).
Item 9: Equivalent Code? (5 / 10).
Item 10: Template Specialization and Overloading (6 / 10).
Item 11: Mastermind (8 / 10).
Optimization and Performance.
Item 12: Inline (4 / 10).
Item 13: Lazy Optimization, Part 1: A Plain Old String (2 / 10).
Item 14: Lazy Optimization, Part 2: Introducing Laziness (3 / 10).
Item 15: Lazy Optimization, Part 3: Iterators and References (6 / 10).
Item 16: Lazy Optimization, Part 4: Multi-Threaded Environments (8 / 10).
Exception Safety Issues and Techniques.
Item 17: Constructor Failures, Part 1: Object Lifetimes (4 / 10).
Item 18: Constructor Failures, Part 2: Absorption? (7 / 10).
Item 19: Uncaught Exceptions (6 / 10).
Item 20: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 1: Parameter Evaluation (6 / 10).
Item 21: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 2: What About auto_ptr? (8 / 10).
Item 22: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 1: Copy Assignment (7 / 10).
Item 23: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 2: Inheritance (6 / 10).
Inheritance and Polymorphism.
Item 24: Why Multiple Inheritance? (6 / 10).
Item 25: Emulating Multiple Inheritance (5 / 10).
Item 26: Multiple Inheritance and the Siamese Twin Problem (4 / 10).
Item 27: (Im)pure Virtual Functions (7 / 10).
Item 28: Controlled Polymorphism (3 / 10).
Memory and Resource Management.
Item 29: Using auto_ptr (5 / 10).
Item 30: Smart Pointer Members, Part 1: A Problem with auto_ptr (5 / 10).
Item 31: Smart Pointer Members, Part 2: Toward a ValuePtr (6 / 10).
Free Functions and Macros.
Item 32: Recursive Declarations (6 / 10).
Item 33: Simulating Nested Functions (5 / 10).
Item 34: Preprocessor Macros (4 / 10).
Item 35: #Definition (4 / 10).
Miscellaneous Topics.
Item 36: Initialization (3 / 10).
Item 37: Forward Declarations (3 / 10).
Item 38: Typedef (3 / 10).
Item 39: Namespaces, Part 1: Using-Declarations and Using-Directives (2 / 10).
Item 40: Namespaces, Part 2: Migrating to Namespaces (4 / 10).
Afterword.
Appendixes,
Appendix A. Optimizations That Aren't (In a Multithreaded World).
Appendix B. Test Results for Single- versus Multi-Thread-Safe String Implementations.
Bibliography.
Index. 020170434XT07022001