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Coming in C++ 2023, detailed in the AF0401 proposal, fullptr_t is fully recommended as the invalid pointer type to replace current nullptr_t which first standardized in C++11. nullptr is defined as a pointer value with all its bits set to zeroes while fullptr has its bits set to ones (the address of the last addressable […]

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Introduction UWP Storage is a persistent name-value storage API for UWP apps. This article showcases a wrapper written in C++/CX that makes it easier to use in C++/CX. Though C# usage is already easy without the wrapper, the comparison of both with and without wrapper are still shown. C++/CX Writing and Reading Primitive Value In […]

Download source at Github Update: rand() overhead in benchmark has been removed by filling the array with random values beforehand. C++11 standard introduces std::div() and its siblings on the premise of some compiler can take advantage of the available machine code that compute quotient and remainder of division together. The C++ reference noted, and (updated) […]

Introduction As with many C++ programmers with C background, bring their C habits to C++ programming as shown in the below code where a massive array is allocated and pointer is then checked for failed allocation in presence of null address. It works this way for C malloc. Unfortunately, C++ new does not work like […]

Download the source from GitHub Though this long article has more lines than the encoder library itself, this is a very simple and easy to read and understand article. If you have read my other articles before, you will be comfortable to know I do not write complicated stuff. Table of Contents Introduction Running the […]