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In C++, how is signed integer stored?
I'm aware that there are a few accepted implementations of how signed integers are stored, specifically negative values. There's two's complement, one's complement, and sign/magnitude. For Visual C++, ...
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What is the benefit of using "filters" instead of "folders" in Visual Studio C++ projects?
I noticed that the default behavior for Visual Studio C++ projects is to organize files using filters instead of folders on disk. Essentially all the source files within the project are stored in the ...
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How to reuse production code - for writing supporting tools?
A little history - skip to the TL;DR if you so wish to.
So I have an UWP application written in C++ that utilizes V8 and have synthetic module which allows calling native methods from the embedded JS ...
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Best way to go about including C/C++ dependencies in Python packages?
I would like to include fastparquet as a dependency in a Python library I am working on but it requires Microsoft Visual C++ to build. The goal here is for the end user to be able to easily install my ...
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Design a tree-like hierarchy of ownership classes
I have a class, call it App, that will instantiate and own a set of classes of type Agents, each of which will instantiate and own a set of Listeners. Ownership is unique and non-transferable, hence ...
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How to port gcnew and gcroot from Visual C++ to gcc [closed]
I have the task to port some code from Visual C++ to gcc.
Some calls are gcnew and gcroot to handle managed code inside cpp module.
How can these calls be ported to gcc in a fashionable way?
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Linking obj files directly. Negative effects?
We have legacy code that has unit tests (wohooo :D [is it then still legacy?:D]).
The production code is an exe file, another one is a DLL but with only one single entry point exported (for some ...
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Is there anyone seriously using C++ ATL or MFC at work these days? [closed]
Is there anyone seriously using C++ ATL or MFC at work these days? Please describe what kind of projects would require them these days.
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Is a compiler warning for 64bit to 32bit `size_t` truncation actually useful?
I have been looking at VC++'s C4267:
Compiler Warning (level 3) C4267
'var' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'type', possible loss of data
The compiler detected a conversion from size_t to a ...
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How can Delphi BPL's be used from visual C++
Delphi BPLs do a DLL name mangling as explained in this German article
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/27758 (use your favorite translator page if needed). The name mangling is obviously different ...
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Port GUI program from VxWorks to Windows [closed]
My company has an old GUI application on VxWorks. Now, I was requested to port this application to Windows XP over new H/W platform. The original application calls WindML & Zinc (Tornado's GUI ...
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Is using non-standard single-line comments fine in C? [closed]
I noticed Visual C++ 2010 (my current environment) and XCode both allow non-standard single-line comments in my C programs. Since these are both my target platforms, I assume it's fine to use it? VC++ ...
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How to evaluate CLR / C++ vs native C++?
How should I go about evaluating the performance or execution time of C++ with CLR versus native C++?
My personal bias is that I believe C++ with CLR to be slower since it has to run on a virtual ...
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How QT Framework handles Events Coming from OS?
When we call QApplication::exec() at the end of our main() function, the application enters Qt's event loop. Conceptually, the event loop looks like this:
while (!exit_was_called) {
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Is Visual C++ Redistributables backward compatible?
I am including two programs in my software. One of which requires VC10 and the other requires VC11. My question is that if program developed for VC10 will work on VC11 or I have to include both VC10 ...
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