I have a static library that is compiled with gcc 3.4.2. I am building a shared library that relies on this static lib. I will be building this shared library (.so) with gcc 4.2.2. I was wondering what are the potential pitfalls of using the 3.4.2 static library in a gcc 4.2.2 shared library? ...
Hello, I'm working on a c++ code that uses SDL/opengl. Is this possible to create a pointer to a quadric with gluNewQuadric() before having initialized opengl with SDL_SetVideoMode? The idea is to create a class with a (pointer to a) quadric class member that has to be instantiate before the SDL_SetVideoMode call. This pointer is ini...
I spent some time googling but didn't really find anything. I want to be able to do this: std::tr1::function<void()> foo(SOME_DEFAULT_FUNCTION_THAT_DOES_NOTHING); // //Some code that could possibly assign foo // foo(); Otherwise I have to do this: std::tr1::function<void()> foo; // //Some code that could possibly assign foo // if(fo...
Hey all, I am looking to render ribbon diagrams of proteins using OpenGL and C++. Does anyone know if any open source code for this already exists, or if there are good guides to do this? If not, I'd prefer to figure it out myself ;) but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, especially if the wheel was free. EDIT: thanks for the respo...
I know I'm reaching for straws here, but this one is a mystery... any pointers or help would be most welcome, so I'm appealing to those more intelligent than I: We have a crash exhibited in our release binaries only. The crash takes place as the binary is bringing itself down and terminating sub-libraries upon which it depends. Its abil...
I am creating a custom Qt widget that mimics an A4 printed page and am having problems getting fonts to render at the correct size. My widget uses QPainter::setViewport and QPainter::setWindow to mimic the A4 page, using units of 10ths of a millimetre which enables me to draw easily. However, attempting to create a font at a specific ...
I have a class with a static std::map member variable that maps chars to a custom type Terrain. I'm attempting to fill this map in the class's implementation file, but I get several errors. Here's my header file: #ifndef LEVEL_HPP #define LEVEL_HPP #include <bitset> #include <list> #include <map> #include <string> #include <vector> #...
I'm having a bit of trouble with dynamic_casting. I need to determine at runtime the type of an object. Here is a demo: #include <iostream> #include <string> class PersonClass { public: std::string Name; virtual void test(){}; //it is annoying that this has to be here... }; class LawyerClass : public PersonClass { public: vo...
I'm updating some legacy apps to Visual Studio 10 and am in linker hell. All of these DLLs derive classes from CWinApp and use AfxGetApp() to get access to the object. When I link the DLLs I get unresolved externals that look like global static objects that would get pulled in by a normal app's main(): Shell.lib(SHELL.obj) : error LNK20...
Everything I've been able to find about escalating to the appropriate privileges for my needs has agreed with my current methods, but the problem exists. I'm hoping maybe someone has some Windows Vista/Win7 internals experience that might shine some light where there is only darkness. I'm sure this will get long, but please bare with me....
I'm working on scientific code that is very performance-critical. An initial version of the code has been written and tested, and now, with profiler in hand, it's time to start shaving cycles from the hot spots. It's well-known that some optimizations, e.g. loop unrolling, are handled these days much more effectively by the compiler tha...
I'm looking for one just to get a general idea of how a standard C++ project should be properly setup. (If that's possible... :-p) Here are my requirements for this project: module-based (has libraries/modules that compile into a main program module) compiles cross-platform I'd like to do this so that I can get a hold on the basics ...
Here is a tricky situation, and i wonder what ways there are to solve it namespace { template <class T> struct Template { /* ... */ }; } typedef Template<int> Template; Sadly, the Template typedef interferes with the Template template in the unnamed namespace. When you try to do Template<float> in the global scope, the compiler...
say I have the following code: char[5][5] array; for(int i =0; i < 5; ++i) { for(int j = 0; j < 5; ++i) { array[i][j] = //random char; } } Would there be a benefit for initializing each row in this array in a separate thread? Imagine instead of a 5 by 5 array, we have a 10 by 10? n x n? Also, this is done once, d...
I've read a lot, including here on SO that suggests this is a very bad idea in general and that the only thing you can do safely is exit the program. I'm not sure that this is true. This is for a pooling memory allocator that hands off large allocations to malloc. During pool_free() a pointer needs to be checked it it belongs to a pool ...
What's the best way to do this....? I have some Native C++ code that uses a lot of Win32 calls together with byte buffers (allocated using HeapAlloc). I'd like to extend the code and make a C# GUI...and maybe later use a basic Win32 GUI (for use where there is no .Net and limited MFC support). (A) I could just re-write the code in C# a...
What is the purpose of using the reserved word virtual in front of functions? If I want a child class to override a parent function, I just declare the same function such as "void draw(){}". class Parent{ public: void say(){ std::cout << "1"; }}; class Child : public Parent{public:void say(){ std::cout << "2"; } }; int main() { C...
My question is with regard to C++ Suppose I write a function to return a list of items to the caller. Each item has 2 logical fields: 1) an int ID, and 2) some data whose size may vary, let's say from 4 bytes up to 16Kbytes. So my question is whether to use a data structure like: struct item { int field1; char field2[MAX_LEN]; ...
an ActiveX control generated by Visual Basic 6, very old stuff, it has a couple of methods and one event. now I have to use the control in C++, visual studio 2008, but I don't like to generate a form/dialog/window as constainer. I add some MFC class From ActiveX Control. Now the wrap class has all the methods defined in the ActiveX co...
I am just starting with cpp and I've been following different examples to learn from them, and I see that buffer size is set in different ways, for example: char buffer[255]; StringCchPrintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), TEXT("%s"), X); VS char buffer[255]; StringCchPrintf(buffer, 255*sizeof(char), TEXT("%s"), X); Which one is the correc...