Tag Archive for: Smart Pointers

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ClassIdioms

Covariant Return Type

February 26, 2023

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The Covariant Return Type of a member function allows an overriding member function to return a narrower…

patterns

The Proxy Pattern

November 13, 2022

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The Proxy Pattern is probably the most influential design pattern for C++. The Proxy provides a placeholder…

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The Bridge Pattern

October 16, 2022

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The Bridge Pattern is a structural pattern. It decouples the interface from the implementation. In C++,…

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Barriers and Atomic Smart Pointers in C++20

January 29, 2021

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In my last post, I introduced latches in C++20. A latch enables its threads to wait until a counter becomes…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Passing Smart Pointers

December 23, 2017

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Passing smart pointers is a critical topic that is seldom addressed. This ends with the C++ core guidelines…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules for Smart Pointers

December 15, 2017

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There were a lot of C++ experts who said that smart pointers were the essential feature of C++11. Today,…

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Atomic Smart Pointers

February 20, 2017

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C++20 will have atomic smart pointers. To be exact, we will get a std::atomic_shared_ptr and a std::atomic_weak_ptr.…

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std::weak_ptr

December 14, 2016

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std::unique_ptr models the concept of exclusive ownership, std::shared_ptr the concept of shared ownership.…

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Specialities of std::shared_ptr

December 12, 2016

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After I draw the big picture of a std::shared_ptr in the last post, I want to present two special aspects…

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std::shared_ptr

December 11, 2016

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std::shared_ptr's share the resource. The shared reference counter counts the number of owners. Copying…

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C++26 Core Language: Small ImprovementsNovember 4, 2024 - 8:34 am
There are more small improvements in the C++26 language, which you should know. static_assert extension First, here’s the syntax of static_assert in C++11: static_assert(compile time predicate, unevaluated string) With C++26, the string can be a user-defined type having the following properties: static_assert can now be used with a format string. Here’s a nice example from […]
Placeholders and Extended Character SetOctober 28, 2024 - 10:19 am
Placeholders are a nice way to highlight variables that are no longer needed. Additionally, the character set of C++26 will be extended. Placeholders Structured bindings are a C++17 feature that allows you to bind multiple variables to the elements of a structured object. The following program demonstrates using tuples and structured bindings to return and […]
Contracts in C++26October 21, 2024 - 9:54 am
Contracts allow you to specify preconditions, postconditions, and invariants for functions. Contracts should already be part of C++20 but were removed in the standard meeting in Cologne. Here is what Herb Sutter said about contracts on Sutter’s Mill: “contracts is the most impactful feature of C++20 so far, and arguably the most impactful feature we […]
Reflection in C++26: Determine the LayoutOctober 14, 2024 - 9:42 am
Thanks to reflection, you can determine the layout of types. My examples are based on the reflection proposal P2996R5. Class Layout The following program determines the class layout of a few members. // classLayout.cpp #include <experimental/meta> #include <iostream> #include <utility> #include <vector> #include <array> struct member_descriptor { std::size_t offset; std::size_t size; bool operator==(member_descriptor const&) const […]
Reflection in C++26: Metafunctions for Enums and ClassesOctober 7, 2024 - 1:53 pm
Today, I continue my journey through reflection in C++26 and play with enums and classes. The names of the metafunctions to access an Enum or a Class member are often identical. Access the Members of an Enum The following program is based on one by Daveed Vandevoorde. Daveed is one of the fathers of reflection, […]
Reflection in C++26: MetafunctionsSeptember 30, 2024 - 10:14 am
Reflection offers many metafunctions that run at compile time. The metafunctions are declared as consteval. consteval creates a so-called immediate function. Each invocation of an immediate function creates a compile-time constant. To say it more directly. A consteval (immediate) function is executed at compile-time. Read more about consteval and constinit in my previous post: Two […]