Archive for category: C++ Core Guidelines

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C++ Core Guidelines: Naming and Layout Rules

October 10, 2019

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The C++ core guidelines have about twenty naming and layout rules. A few of them are obvious; a few of…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Lifetime Safety And Checking the Rules

October 1, 2019

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The lifetime safety profile in the C++ core guidelines boils down to one issue: don't dereference a possible…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Bounds Safety

September 26, 2019

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Today's post concerns the second C++ Core Guidelines: Bounds Safety profile. The goal of the profile…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Type Safety by Design

September 18, 2019

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What does that mean: type safety by design. Type safety by design just means that you always initialize…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Type Safety

September 8, 2019

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The C++ core guidelines support three profiles: type safety, bounds safety, and lifetime safety. Thanks…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Profiles

September 6, 2019

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Informally, profiles are a subset of rules of the C++ core guidelines for specific concerns such as type…

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More Myths of My Blog Readers

August 30, 2019

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Today, I conclude my story to your myths about C++. These myths are around function parameters, the initialisation…

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Myths of My Blog Readers

August 22, 2019

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I was inquisitive about your C++ myths. In particular, my German readers were quite active. I got a few…

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C++ Core Guidelines: More Non-Rules and Myths

August 16, 2019

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Demystifying non-rules and myths in C++ is a laborious but essential job. The goal is simple: use the…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Non-Rules and Myths

August 8, 2019

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Of course, you already know many non-rules and myths about C++. Non-rules and myths which we have to…

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A Lock-Free Stack: Atomic Smart PointerFebruary 17, 2025 - 11:47 am
The easiest way to solve this memory leak issue from the last post is to use a std::shared_ptr. Atomic Smart Pointer There are two ways to apply atomic operations on a std::shared_ptr: In C++11, you can use the free atomic functions on std::shared_ptr. With C++20, you can use atomic smart pointers. C++11 Using atomic operations […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Complete ImplementationFebruary 10, 2025 - 3:01 pm
My last lock-free stack implementation was incomplete. It only supported push operations. Let’s change this. The following paragraph about sequential consistency is optional. You can easily ignore it. Sequential Consistency In my examples, I use the default memory ordering: sequential consistency. The reason is simple. Sequential consistency provides the strongest guarantees of all memory ordering […]
My Next Mentoring Program: “Generic Programming (Templates) with C++” startsFebruary 4, 2025 - 4:51 pm
My next mentoring program, “Embedded Programming with Modern C++,” starts on January 31st. Registration is open. Here are more details. Embedded Programming with Modern C++ The mentoring program consists of 16 stations. You have to invest at least 3 hours per week for each one. This means the program takes four months, and you can […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Simplified ImplementationFebruary 3, 2025 - 10:37 am
Today, I continue my mini story about lock-free data structures. General Considerations From the outside, the caller’s responsibility (application) is to protect the data. From inside, the data structure is responsible for protecting itself. A data structure that protects itself so a data race cannot appear is called thread-safe. First, what general considerations must you […]
Deferred Reclamation in C++26: Read-Copy Update and Hazard PointersJanuary 27, 2025 - 12:23 pm
Before I dive into lock-free programming, there’s a little bit of theory necessary. A common problem in concurrency is the so-called ABA problem. That means you read a variable twice, which returns the same value each time, A. Therefore, you conclude that nothing changed in between. But you forgot the B. Let me first use […]
std::format ExtensionJanuary 20, 2025 - 11:55 am
Displaying the address of an arbitrary pointer in C++ 20 fails but succeeds with C++26. C++20 Only void, const void, and std::nullptr_t pointer types are valid. If you want to display the address of an arbitrary pointer, you must cast it to (const) void*. // formatPointer20.cpp #include <format> #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { […]