C / C++ - libraries, tips, tricks and gotchas

C++ Boost

Unicode C++

Data access for C and C++

Mongodb

Unit Testing in C++

Formatting I/O using IOSTREAMS

#include  //cout,cint,etc
#include  // setwidth,setfill,setprecision,etc
#include  // ostringstream

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    unsigned int number=47;
    cout << "Setting field width is simple.\n";
    cout << "For each variable, simply precede it with setw(n)"<
A really good article on iostreams is "Extending the iostream library", by Horstmann.  It explains how to do everything above, plus it includes a  manipulator to convert printf formatting commands to their stream  equivalents.  Very cool.



Static Class Constants
I'm always forgetting the syntax for properly defining static class constants.  The biggest problem is not defining it, but initializing static const data members.  The C++ Standard allows initialization of const static data members of an integral type inside their class.  But I don't suggest it, initialize all your data in one place.  Declare them inside your class header and implement them in your cpp file.

class Car
{
public:
    static const int NUMDOORS; //definition
    static const std::string MSG; //non-integral type; must be defined outside the class body
};

// then inside the cpp file.
const int Car::NUMDOORS=4;
const std::string Car::MSG= "hello";

STL Information
STLPort

STL Resources on MSDN - Visual C++ Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

STL maps


I love STL maps because they allow you to specify an ordering of your keys and the map takes care of it automagically.



A multimap is an associative container that manages a set of ordered key/value pairs. More than one value can be associated with a particular key. The pairs are ordered by key, based on a user-supplied comparator function.


// Include this for map defines.
#include 




CodeProject: Casting Basics - Use C++ casts in your VC++.NET programs.

Casting in C++: Bringing Safety and Smartness to Your Programs



Standard include paths
This doesn't relate directly to C++, but it does come up when programming in C++... GCC has a bunch of standard search paths that it moves through to find your libraries and include files.  If you want to include a new path to the standard set of paths, just define the env. var for it.

Ex. export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH:/usr/X11R6/include

Environment Variables Affecting GCC





Code modeling
GCC-XML looks amazing when used with pygccxml



CLARAty Robotic Software - JPL's open robotic framework.

libMesh - C++ finite element library

DOLFIN - C++ ordinary/partial differential equations library.





Static analysis
Unfortunately, static analysis tools are not cheap.  Here are a few that I know about.  I wish there were some good open source alternatives.

Source Code Security Analyzers - SAMATE.nist.gov - list of static analyzers from NIST

Coverity Incorporated: Products: Coverity Prevent SQS for C/C++: Map the Software DNA

Insure++®: C/C++ Testing Tool, Detect elusive Runtime Memory Errors - Parasoft



Look Coverity for open source projects:Coverity Scan - Static Analysis

RATS - Rough Auditing Tool for Security - is a tool for scanning C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python source code and flagging common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions. CERN Computer Security Information RATS rough-auditing-tool-for-security - Rough Auditing Tool for Security (RATS) - Google Project Hosting

Splint Home Page - Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes.

PMD - PMD is a source code analyzer that also looks for copy and paste code (duplicate code)

Frama-C - source-code analysis of C , value analysis, effects analysis, dependency analysis, impact analysis.

Cppcheck - A tool for static C/C++ code analysis - Out of bounds checking,Check the code for each class,Checking exception safety,Memory leaks checking,Warn if obsolete functions are used,Check for invalid usage of STL,Check for uninitialized variables and unused functions.

Two Years (and Thousands of Bugs) of Static Analysis | Random ASCII





Managed C++/CLI
Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes : Conversion between System.String and char *

Junfeng Zhang's Windows Programming Notes : Reverse P/Invoke Marshaling Performance





gdb
main is usually a function: Embedding GDB breakpoints in C source code





LLVM Clang
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project - LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

"clang" C Language Family Frontend for LLVM - Clang is an "LLVM native" C/C++/Objective-C compiler, which aims to deliver amazingly fast compiles (e.g. about 3x faster than GCC when compiling Objective-C code in a debug configuration), extremely useful error and warning messages  and to provide a platform for building great source level tools. 

[Phoronix] LLVM Post-3.4 To Most Likely Depend Upon C++11

Main — Emscripten documentation Emscripten is an LLVM-based project that compiles C and C++ into highly-optimizable JavaScript in asm.js format. This lets you run C and C++ on the web at near-native speed, without plugins.





CMake
BuildingWinDLL - KitwarePublic

CMakeModularizationStatus – Boost C++ Libraries

Ryppl ryppl (The Ryppl Project) - an attempt to create a PyPy or CPAN for C/C++. Boost,CMake,Git,ZeroInstall





Embedding a File in an Executable, aka Hello World, Version 5967 | Linux Journal - using objcopy to create linkable data objects.

c++ - Is Meyers implementation of Singleton pattern thread safe? - Stack Overflow - depends on your compiler. C++ and the Perils of Double-Checked Locking (PDF)





kripken/emscripten - Emscripten: An LLVM-to-JavaScript Compiler

    

    Created: 2005-12-27 01:56:50
    Modified: 2016-03-08 04:18:34