C++ is love

[Sander Rossel]

honey the codewitch wrote:

burned your house down. It's much more time and space efficient than taking out the trash.

How the heck is burning down a house every week efficient? :laugh:

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[honey the codewitch]

It saves you from having to take the garbage out. ;P

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[honey the codewitch]

My soul? Oh that old thing? I think I traded it for some concert tickets back in the day.

Real programmers use butterflies

[Sander Rossel]

That's more like deleting your entire application to solve a single bug... :~ Maybe you just don't know how analogies work? :laugh:

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[Lost User]

Also confusing language and libraries. e.g. C++ managed and unmanaged.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

[pkfox]

Article methinks - I think you should write a book - *Random thoughts of a clever mad Witch* :-D

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[Rick York]

Some of us find the light again. Some of us never lose it.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

[Greg Utas]

When I saw your post, I wondered how badly you were going to get flamed, given the popularity of C# on this site. I never thought this thread would stay so civilized, let alone be fairly positive. :)

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[r_hyde]

I don't hate C++, but I don't share your sentiments. This is almost certainly my own failing, though—it's not a problem with the language so much (which is alright, I guess), I just always end up fighting with the compiler/linker. I've never worked with C++ enough to become much more than minimally competent with it.

[raddevus]

honey the codewitch wrote:

I gave it away under the MIT license.

GitHub link, or it didn't happen. :laugh:

[honey the codewitch]

GitHub - codewitch-honey-crisis/MemoryPool: Small fixed size sequential memory pool allocators for constrained memory environments[^] :laugh:

Real programmers use butterflies

[honey the codewitch]

There's a certain point - and it can take awhile with C++ - where you reach a level that it is no longer intimidating or as frustrating. True, I did recently spend all morning and ask a stackoverflow question because I missed a "=0" at the end of one of my functions and was responded to with "missing vtable for class" or some such, but that's life, you know? :laugh:

Real programmers use butterflies

[honey the codewitch]

I share your surprise. :)

Real programmers use butterflies

[honey the codewitch]

No, that's basically how my code works.

Real programmers use butterflies

[k5054]

I see you're using both #pragma once and #ifdef include guards. Is that really necessary? GCC supports both, going back to at least version 4.8, so the #pragma doesn't even need to be wrapped in an #ifdef _MSC_VER. But maybe you know something I don't, or maybe you're using some other compiler that doesn't understand the #pragma? Also, picking nits, since I have nothing better to offer, I see that this is a memory pool for contrained memory environments. That must be a constrained, contained memory situation, correct? :)

Keep Calm and Carry On

[Rick York]

I used to put a test of the preprocessor in headers :

#pragma once

#ifdef HEADER_H
#error pragma once was ignored
#else
#define HEADER_H
#endif

I have not used very many compilers but I never saw the error message. I use only VS now so I don't do that any more.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

[honey the codewitch]

GCC throws a "#pragma once in main file" if I don't guard against them appearing. OTOH MSVC seems to like #pragma once to be in there for its source editors.

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[honey the codewitch]

I could do that but I'd rather recover gracefully. What I did compiles with no warnings and that's my major concern.

Real programmers use butterflies

[honey the codewitch]

I'm economically agnostic. No systems devised by humans survive contact with them.

Real programmers use butterflies

[raddevus]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: :)