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More Exceptional C++: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions
Herb Sutter

ISBN-10: 020170434X
ISBN-13:  9780201704341

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright:  2002
Format:  Paper; 304 pp
Published:  12/17/2001
Status: Instock


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Foreword.


Preface.


Generic Programming and the C++ Standard Library.

Item 1: Switching Streams (2 / 10).

Item 2: Predicates, Part 1: What remove() Removes (4 / 10).

Item 3: Predicates, Part 2: Matters of State (7 / 10).

Item 4: Extensible Templates: Via Inheritance or Traits? (7 / 10).

Item 5: Typename (7 / 10).

Item 6: Containers, Pointers, and Containers That Aren't (5 / 10).

Item 7: Using Vector and Deque (3 / 10).

Item 8: Using Set and Map (5 / 10).

Item 9: Equivalent Code? (5 / 10).

Item 10: Template Specialization and Overloading (6 / 10).

Item 11: Mastermind (8 / 10).



Optimization and Performance.

Item 12: Inline (4 / 10).

Item 13: Lazy Optimization, Part 1: A Plain Old String (2 / 10).

Item 14: Lazy Optimization, Part 2: Introducing Laziness (3 / 10).

Item 15: Lazy Optimization, Part 3: Iterators and References (6 / 10).

Item 16: Lazy Optimization, Part 4: Multi-Threaded Environments (8 / 10).



Exception Safety Issues and Techniques.

Item 17: Constructor Failures, Part 1: Object Lifetimes (4 / 10).

Item 18: Constructor Failures, Part 2: Absorption? (7 / 10).

Item 19: Uncaught Exceptions (6 / 10).

Item 20: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 1: Parameter Evaluation (6 / 10).

Item 21: An Unmanaged Pointer Problem, Part 2: What About auto_ptr? (8 / 10).

Item 22: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 1: Copy Assignment (7 / 10).

Item 23: Exception-Safe Class Design, Part 2: Inheritance (6 / 10).



Inheritance and Polymorphism.

Item 24: Why Multiple Inheritance? (6 / 10).

Item 25: Emulating Multiple Inheritance (5 / 10).

Item 26: Multiple Inheritance and the Siamese Twin Problem (4 / 10).

Item 27: (Im)pure Virtual Functions (7 / 10).

Item 28: Controlled Polymorphism (3 / 10).



Memory and Resource Management.

Item 29: Using auto_ptr (5 / 10).

Item 30: Smart Pointer Members, Part 1: A Problem with auto_ptr (5 / 10).

Item 31: Smart Pointer Members, Part 2: Toward a ValuePtr (6 / 10).



Free Functions and Macros.

Item 32: Recursive Declarations (6 / 10).

Item 33: Simulating Nested Functions (5 / 10).

Item 34: Preprocessor Macros (4 / 10).

Item 35: #Definition (4 / 10).



Miscellaneous Topics.

Item 36: Initialization (3 / 10).

Item 37: Forward Declarations (3 / 10).

Item 38: Typedef (3 / 10).

Item 39: Namespaces, Part 1: Using-Declarations and Using-Directives (2 / 10).

Item 40: Namespaces, Part 2: Migrating to Namespaces (4 / 10).



Afterword.


Appendixes,


Appendix A. Optimizations That Aren't (In a Multithreaded World).


Appendix B. Test Results for Single- versus Multi-Thread-Safe String Implementations.


Bibliography.


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Herb Sutter is the author of three highly acclaimed books, Exceptional C++ Style, Exceptional C++, and More Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley). He chairs the ISO C++ standards committee, and is contributing editor and columnist for C/C++ Users Journal. As a software architect for Microsoft, Sutter leads the design of C++ language extensions for .NET programming.




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Organized in a practical problem-and-solution format, More Exceptional C++ picks up where the widely acclaimed Exceptional C++ leaves off, providing successful strategies for solving real-world problems in C++. Drawing from years of in-the-trenches experience, Herb Sutter provides tested techniques and practical solutions for programmers designing modern software systems with C++, from small projects to enterprise applications.

Built around forty programming puzzles, More Exceptional C++ helps you understand the rules and issues critical to successful software design and development in C++. New themes included in this sequel place a strong emphasis on generic programming, memory management, and using the C++ standard library, including coverage of important techniques like traits and predicates. Also included are guidelines and considerations to remember when using standard containers and algorithms--topics rarely covered in-depth in other sources.

Readers will find solutions to such important questions as:
  • What pitfalls might you encounter when using std::map and std::set, and how can you safely avoid them?
  • What kinds of predicates are safe to use with the STL, what kinds aren't, and why?
  • What techniques are available for writing powerful generic template code that can change its own behavior based on the capabilities of the types it's given to work with?
  • When and how should you optimize your code? Why can (and do) fancy optimizations get us into trouble? And how can some of these answers change if you're writing multithread-safe code?
  • Does exception safety affect class design, or can it be retrofitted in as an afterthought?
  • How can you avoid the Siamese Twin problem when combining inheritance-based libraries from different vendors?
  • How can you safely use auto_ptr, and then use common design patterns to adapt it to avoid common pitfalls? Can you use auto_ptr as a class member? What must you know before you elect to use it that way?
  • Plus one of the most frequently recurring questions about modern C++: When and how should you use namespaces, anyway?

A must-have for the serious programmer, More Exceptional C++ provides a thorough and pragmatic understanding of the language while showing you how to write exceptional code in C++.



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