Questions tagged [c++17]
Code that is written to the 2017 version of the C++ standard. Use in conjunction with the 'c++' tag.
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C++17 view over the Ith elements of tuples in containers of tuples
For mainly didactic reasons, I have designed my ElementsView<I, T> class template, which provides a view over the I th ...
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Create and view a family tree
I have an assignment due Friday to make a family tree. Started to code in January. My reviews from the teacher for this code was that the use of pointers was horrendous and it wasn't OOP enough. This ...
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Multi-threaded Mandelbrot set generator slower than single thread
I am new to parallel programming. I have been playing around with multi-threading and for some reason, multi-threading the Mandelbrot set is slower than running a single thread. I have been trying to ...
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Storing different types with common base using atomic-based typeid
I'm trying to develop some kind of in-memory store for my entities. These entities are representations of the devices available on the system. There may be eg. 3 leds, 1 temp sensor, 2 engines etc. ...
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Find local maxima of a sequence
I'm well versed in Python and Java, am just starting out with C++. Am enjoying the language and would really appreciate feedback on this solution.
kata:
Return positions and values of the "peaks&...
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C++ stack class design
I am trying some hands on recent C++ standards. For the purpose of learning, I have implemented a Stack class as below which can hold any type of data member.
I would like everyone to review this ...
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visit for std::any
While solving an online excersise I have written some basic implementation for a visit function that works with std::any.
The ...
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Forward linked list implementation in C++
I wrote a linked list implementation in C++ to learn the concepts about linked lists as well as C++(17). I decided to use std::unique_ptr to help me avoid leaks and ...
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C++ circular buffer that guarantees contiguous data
For interfacing with C-API that requires data in one contiguous block
I came up with the following, which seems to work nicely, but I wanted
to see if I didn't miss anything crucial. Drawback is of ...
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C++ Chess Engine - (Magic)Bitboard-based move generation
I am currently writing a bitboard-based Chess Engine in C++, and I recently finished the move generation. I am using move-lookup-tables that get pre-calculated at application startup for sliding and ...
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Matrix implementation
I am trying to implement an optimal and fast running matrix in C++. I need some review of the code and ideas on how to improve the code quality if it shall be.
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formatting flattened string into JSON-like object in C++, part 2
I have reworked the code from my previous (linked) post.
For reference:
I have a string which contains JSON-like object flattened (stringify()ed).
I need to JSON-...
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Event Dispatcher for GLFW/Glad
I've tried to write an event dispatcher for a GLFW/Glad library. However I am not very used to writing efficient code (spent the majority of my life writing in C# and performance was never really the ...
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Automatically registering a class using header-only templated classes
I'm trying to reduce the boilerplate of a lot of header-only classes I'm using. Each of these classes must go through a registration step. I want this step to be defined in the same file as the class ...
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Derived class constructor taking rvalue ref to base class
I've got the following classes: BaseWidget, ActiveWidget, and DetachedWidget. Both derived classes use resources provided by BaseWidget: vector and int. The current so-called "state" (...
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Counting Radix Sort: A C++ version
Follow up to original question:
This is Radix Sort, using a counting implementation. For numbers that are N bytes in length, we use an N pass counting approach. Starting with the least significant ...
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A reuseable reconnecting TCP socket with Asio
I'm using (non-boost) Asio 1.18.1 and C++17. Forgive the boost tag, there wasn't a more specific one.
I have a async_connect_with_retry composed asynchronous ...
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Fixed-size memory allocator
I've been trying to implement a simple Boost PMR allocator that has a fixed amount of memory. My first implementation (which can be found here) had undefined behavior and did not handle memory ...
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C++ Garbage Collector - Simple Automatic Memory Management
I made a general smart pointer which fixes the problems of loops between std::shared_ptr's. While use is simple, I feel that my code is inefficient and clumsy. Here ...
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Writing a C++ Matrix class
I am refreshing my C++ programming skills, and I'm currently reading the book C++ 17 by Ivor Horton. The idea is to code some naive implementations of numerical algorithms (Root finding, solving a ...
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Implementation of an entity component system in c++
I tried to write a simple entity component system for my game engine. Each scene will have an EntityManager. It will create entities and add or remove components from them. An entity will be destroyed ...
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Robust program to write an array of certain data type to a binary file and read back from it (C++17)
Problem description
As the title indicates, I want to be able to write to and read from a binary file safely, in the sense that I want to have full control of everything that might go wrong. Since I ...
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Convert program arguments to std::wstring
Due to recent need I wrote a simple main function that has the goal to convert the C-style strings and arrays into a more STL-style. Then because I also had a need ...
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C++ allocator for std::wstring_convert
In my application, I'm using std::wstring_convert to convert std::string into std::u32string....
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Yet another minesweeper field calculator
The task is to read in a data file containing a representation of a rectangular array with '*' signifying a mine and '.' signifying the absence of one. Each such array is preceded by a row and column ...
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C++ Mine Sweeper Attempt
Saw this question and though I wanted to try.
So my version of reading Mine Sweeper: For the Online Judge
Some Utilities Classes
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Python's enumerate for C++
I implemented an enumerate() method for C++ containers similar to Python's enumerate to iterate through a range with an index and the actual value.
I have the following questions:
Does the usage of ...
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Blocking until one or multiple signals is emitted
I've written this little helper function, that will block the current thread until any of a given list of signals is emitted by an object or until an optional timeout is reached.
It can be used to ...
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looping over variables of heterogeneous type
These snippets are nothing special, but they remind us to sometimes loop without a for or a while loop. It is even possible to ...
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A simple Qt + MQTT doorbell application
So I built a house recently and didn't want to rely on "privacy-questionnable" systems like Google Home or Amazon whatever so I decided to build a doorbell system myself.
Hardware
I use a ...
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Cryptographic hashing class using OpenSSL's EVP interface
I have written a cryptographic hashing class named Ccksum::DigestHasher that allows the caller to select a hashing algorithm by name via OpenSSL's EVP interface. ...
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Chess engine generates moves
I am currently writing a chess engine to improve my C++. I was able to improve my first results in terms of performance. (It is still really weak, but it does not lose a queen in one move)
I ended up ...
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Creating a threadsafe, mutable, global configuration struct wrapper with C++17
I'm trying to create a relatively simple class that stores global configuration in some serializable struct, and reads/writes from/to a file.
My main goal is to make this class easy to use correctly. ...
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A simple write-once-read-many indexed based database
I started writing a cyrptocoin from scratch, and then got sidetracked writing the database portion which I eventually turned it into its own project.
Data is written to the database and then retrieved ...
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Typesafe implicit wrapper for C enums
This is meant to go in a vulkan.hpp-like strongly-typed wrapper for a pure C library.
A wrapped enum provides back and forth implicit conversion between itself and ...
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Enter the randomly displayed letter console game
The below code segments compose a simple console game where the user is prompted to enter a randomly generated letter displayed in the console. It also saves and loads user data through a .txt file.
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Token class implementation with std::variant
So I've been trying to implement a Token class in C++. At first I wanted to use a simple enum class to store the Kind of the ...
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Custom UUID implementation on C++
The code's gonna be pretty simple and YES, I do know, what a proper UUID4 implementation is and what are possible approaches to implement RFC 4122.
But somewhere there exists a small piece of software,...
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A multi key/value type "folded" map class template
I have recently come across a use case where I need to lump many maps into a single container. These maps can have different combinations of key/value types, but they all differ from one another.
For ...
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Gather all IP addresses of a host as a vector
I have the following working code to get IPv4/v6 addresses from host names:
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Custom Error Handler Library in C++
Is this code clean and optimized? When taking memory snapshots, it seems a bit high.
Anything I have done wrong or can do to optimize it?
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Simple NAPI wrapper around self written C++ msgpack, horrible performance
I have written a relatively small msgpack implementation in C++, with performance that is not too bad, so I decided to write a NAPI wrapper around it, but the performance is just horrible. I am ...
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Storing a copy of unique_ptr
When one writes c++ code to manipulate LinkedLists, Trees, etc. one creates a tmp pointer that points to the start/root and changes that pointer as one traverses along.
What would be the equivalent ...
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Access object initialized within try block afterwards if no exception occured
I have a use case where I try to initialize a Player object within a try block.
The relevant excerpt of the current, working ...
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De-/Serialization of structs representing TCP messages
I wrote two template functions to serialize and deserialize structs representing messages to be sent and received via a TCP socket:
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Is this thread pool implementation OK?
There are things that I am not 100% sure.
Is it possible that dangling references can be create in add_task method?
Is it possible that this implementation will deadlock?
I had to use shared_ptr in ...
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Image (Const) Iterator using C++17
I am trying to learn how to correctly implement an iterator (and its corresponding const variant) using a single template, so I would appreciate any criticism to the following code. It's an forward ...
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Safe runtime numeric casts
The rationale behind this code is to implement a runtime-safe number conversions in situations when precision loss is possible, but is not expected. Example: passing a ...
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Num++: A numpy implementation written in C++
I've recently found myself in need of several numpy functions in C++. I've decided to write my own header-only implementation of the ...
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Asynchronous dispatch queue
Background:
This is supposed to be the sole worker thread to carry out long-lasting jobs in a GUI application. The GUI thread should be able to schedule tasks in a non-blocking manner and the tasks ...
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