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Dark corners of C  
« on: Mar 25th, 2013, 5:09am »
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #1 on: Mar 25th, 2013, 5:37am »
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It turns out that auto was a good placeholder for a useful keyword in C++11.
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #2 on: Mar 25th, 2013, 5:40am »
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I hope it doesn't break the code that is making use of that keyword.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 25th, 2013, 6:03am »
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Indeed, I cannot compile things like
auto int i = 0;
in the new standard.
 
Hm.. I would be hardpressed to figure out some ambiguous usage of auto.
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #4 on: Mar 25th, 2013, 12:20pm »
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on Mar 25th, 2013, 6:03am, peoplepower wrote:
Hm.. I would be hardpressed to figure out some ambiguous usage of auto.

double a = 0.0;
auto b = a;

In C, b will be an int (because a missing type implies int); in C++0x, b will be a double (because the type of an auto variable is implied by the type of the expression assigned to it).
 
Fortunately, in earlier versions of C++ this is a compiler error, because the missing-type-implies-int rule is only in straight C, not C++. So it's only a potential ambiguity if you're attempting to compile straight-C code as C++0x.
 
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #5 on: Mar 25th, 2013, 6:10pm »
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Wow, I did not know that (probably for good reason).
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #6 on: Jul 5th, 2014, 7:41am »
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It's great, I've never heard about these stuffs  Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 5th, 2014, 3:10pm »
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I've never heard of this ... what exactly is "Dark corners of C" - I get you're referring to the programming language, but is there something new I've not learnt about it?
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #8 on: Aug 5th, 2014, 11:24pm »
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Just click the link and read the presentation.
It's things you can, but probably shouldn't, do in C, because they're weird and/or evil.
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Re: Dark corners of C  
« Reply #9 on: Aug 6th, 2014, 6:11am »
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That's actually pretty cool, thanks for sharing it (:
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