Sites for function reference

Question

Hello,

do you use any particular site for function reference or you just google the function?

Answer 1

I use www.cplusplus.com a lot.

Answer 2

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

Answer 3

G'day,

I pretty much always go to the project's home page or vendor's site first to see what documentation is available first and then try Googling.

Edit: Oops, I forgot add that I am almost always using the "K" functionality of vim to bring up the relevant man page if I am looking at the source code itself. Parking your vim cursor on the function name and hitting the captial-K key with open a new buffer with the relevant man page loaded. Just enter :bd when you want to close the man page and your then back in the source code.

Actually, I'm really beginning to see that more and more a relevent SO question and answer turns up high on the list of Google results.

HTH

cheers,

Answer 4

For C, I use http://man.cx/ or http://linux.die.net/man/ or http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/ and mostly my copy of the Draft C99 reference.

Answer 5

For C++ Standard Library functions, I look them up in my paper copy of "The C++ Standard Library" by Nicolai Josuttis. Like most good technical books, it is far superior to any on-line resource.

Answer 6

Either http://www.cplusplus.com/ or http://www.dinkumware.com/ for the standard library reference.

Answer 7

I still visit the STL pages at SGI a lot. It's a good thing these pages are still there even though SGI isn't exactly what it used to be.

The same for Boost: website is easiest.

However, I consume Qt documentation mostly via QtCreator as it is a pretty decent tool, even though I use Emacs to edit my sources.

Answer 8

I have SGI's STL doc, Apache's (formerly Rogue Wave) STDCXX doc and Single Unix Spec (= POSIX) v3 locally. I run FreeBSD, have man pages installed.

other than that, it's google which usually quickly leads to the sites mentioned in the other answers.

Answer 9

95% of my basic C/C++ questions are answered via Google (usually through a link to http://www.cplusplus.com).

Google has the advantage that I get to see at a glance an overview of what problems other people might have been running into with whatever I'm looking up. This isn't usually something of value (because I'm just looking for a refresher or basics), but when it is useful it's pure gold.

If I need more authority or detail, I hit the PDF of the standard document. Then of course there's MSDN (local or on the web) if I need Windows details (which is often enough for me anyway).

Finally when I really want or need background or for curiosity's sake, there's a few shelves full of books from the experts (or their online articles - which Google helps me with, of course).

Answer 10

I use CPP Reference a lot. It is not complete, but the pages are simple, uncluttered and easy to read. When in doubt, I check the paper references.

Answer 11

For C I just use man localy in the terminal. I find it supperior to online resources both in terms of speed and accuracy.

Answer 12

I have a PDF of the ISO/IEC 14882 C++ standard. Costs about $30 to download from the ISO web site, and is indispensible for any "real C++ programmer."