Back on topic: does anyone here know, whether Windows, or its any part, helps me to utilize CPU cores in any way, which is helpful but invisible for me? Like, when I create new thread, does OS pick a...
case label value is required to be not a constant (like, constant variable), but integral constant-expression, and these are, among others, literal values, or constant valiables initialized with...
I have just noticed a new forum with Slow Chat about C++ 0x Standard. I know it is still locked and it is going to be opened on Dec 8th, but I'd like to prepare myself with questions and...
Remeber that compiler processes each translation unit separately. If you undef some defined sybol, and afterwards compile another file with the same compiler settings, symbol will be defined again....
There is no standard C++ way for this. You have to use platform specific functions, like SetConsoleTextAttribute for Windows, or these codes: http://linuxgazette.net/issue65/padala.html if your...
Recently I am trying to learn something new, and I found out that compilation time calculations would be very useful for me quite often. So, I grabbed my copy of google, looked up some...
I guess that there is no requirement for streams being buffered or not, however, it is clearly stated that endl flushes output stream at 27.6.2.7 Standard basic_ostream manipulators.
I just do not...
You have Outer class with no members (empty), but it has inner type defined (GiganticInner). However, as you can see, it has no impact on size of outer class objects, as...
No, it means that they are inaccessible to anyone except this class itself and its friends. Noone else can create objects of your class. I think that you want to be possible to create your objects...
The worst thing with off-topic thread is that you have no possibility to follow the rules. When you post something on any topic, you violate the rules. When you post something off-topic, then you are...
First of all, I want to point out that I am young person, with 4 year experience in software development as a code monkey and about 12 years of total computer usage (home + games + shool + work), so...
On topic: Generally I do not program for parallel processing because I do not need to. I have no experience in that either. But I am aware of it and when I should create / work on OS, or software...
So you probably did not hear of a lady who sued microwave oven manufacturer AND WON because she killed her cat when she attempted to dry it in microwave. Or about some dude who sued car manufacturer...
Logical operators, WHEN NOT OVERLOADED, have some special property: they are evaluated left to right, and when evaluation yields the result which will be not affected by following expressions, it is...