Will the destructor be called?

August 10, 2010 00:00

Here's a C++ quiz for all of you: somefunc() will be called from a thread. Do you think this destructor will be called?

class A {
public:
    A () {
        printf("Constructor\t");
    }

    ~A() {
        printf("Destructor\n");
    }
};

int somefunc () {
    A inst;
    int* a = 0
    *a = 1;
    return 0;
}

...

Idioms

June 21, 2010 00:00

What if

for (int i=0; i<100; i++) 
{
    doSomething();
}

// and

for (int i=0; i<100; i+=2)
{
    doSomethingElse();
}

Was

doSomething() for 1..99;
while (i=1,2..99) { doSomethingElse(); };

Would the world be a better place? ...

That's Not The Point

December 29, 2009 00:00

Today I read an interesting chapter in Writing Solid Code, and it showed an example where a supposed optimization led to code bloat:

To represent the hierarchical window structure, Character Windows used a binary tree in which one branch pointed to subwindwos, called "children" and the...

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GWT: Next level of automation

November 04, 2009 00:00

After playing a little with GWT, and attempting to add a map into my little webapp, I've found that this is really a very good idea. By applying a language to abstract all the small difficulties of programming a webpage for different browsers, you essentially move a larger percentage of the work int...

Attempt to rush an RPG

May 04, 2009 00:00

After reading an article on GameDev about a guy who managed to build an RPG in 40 hours, I decided I'd try my hand at doing an RPG 40 hours too, but in C#. So I started to write the first code on Saturday. After 10 hours of grue...