C++ Core Gudelines: goto considered Evil
If you can’t throw an exception and can’t use final_action (finally) from the guideline support library, you have a problem. Exceptional states require exceptional actions: goto. Really?
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Bartłomiej Filipek, author of the well-known C++-blog: Bartek’s coding blog gave me four vouchers for his book C++ in Detail.
C++ Core Guidelines: finally in C++
To make my point clear, this post is about the exceptional case that you can not throw an exception. If your program runs in a restricted embedded environment or you have to fulfil a hard-real-time requirement, this situation may be not so exceptional to you.
I’m Proud to Present: Modern C++ Concurrency is available as interactive course
Based on my book “Concurrency with Modern C++” educative.io created an interactive course. You can have it now at a discount of 38 %. “Modern C++ Concurrency” is an interactive journey through current and upcoming concurrency in C++. C++11 and C++14 have the basic building blocks for creating concurrent or parallel programs. With C++17 we […]
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules about Exception Handling
Today’s post is about the right way to throw and catch exceptions. This means when you should throw and how you should catch an exception.
C++ Core Guidelines: The noexcept Specifier and Operator
If you skim the remaining rules to error handling, you often read the word noexcept. Before I write about the rules for error handling, I will write about the noexcept specifier and the noexcept operator in this post.
C++ Core Guidelines: A Short Detour to Contracts in C++20
My original plan was it to write in this post about the next rules to error handling. But I changed my plan to write about the future: contracts in C++20.
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Error Handling
Error handling is an essential part of writing good software; therefore, the C++ core guidelines have about 20 rules for error handling.
Which pdf bundle should I provide? Make your choice!
Now, it’s time to choose the next pdf bundle? You will get all posts, all source files, and a cmake file to the chosen topic.
C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules about Lock-Free Programming
Today, I will finish my story on concurrency and lock-free programming. There are four rules to lock-free programming in the C++ core guidelines left.