Boost C++ Idioms

This time lets take a brief look at some nifty C++ idioms in the Boost peer-reviewed libraries. We will talk about Boost Base-from-Member i...

new, delete, custom memory allocation, and exception safety

This post will hopefully push you ahead to a higher level of expertise in memory management mechanics of C++ and exception safety. Here we g...

Non-Virtual Interface (NVI) idiom and the design intent

Assuming that the philosophy of Non-Virtual Interface (NVI) idiom is strictly adhered I came up with a table that summarizes the design int...

Virtuality is an implementation detail !

There are many ways of achieving separation of interface from implementation: 1. Using Interface Definition Language (IDL) as in CORBA 2. Br...

Forgotton friend: pointer/reference to an array

The name of an array "degenerates" into a pointer to the first element of the array. For example, int Array [10]; int *p = Array; ...

More C++ links

Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, posts really interesting updates about C++0x (now most likely C++09) on his blo...

Service Configurator pattern and singleton deletion

The Service Configurator pattern is about linking in additional functionality in an application dynamically by means of an API such as dlsym...

swap using XOR

In one of my previous posts I described a few ways of swapping two numbers using xor operation in a sinlge line. The discussion is not corr...