GCC 4.9 Diagnostics

GCC 4.9 added support for colorizing the warning and error output to make it easier to understand what went wrong during compilation of s...

Creating portable Linux binaries

For some, the idea of creating a portable Linux binary is somewhat elusive. In this article, we will be discussing how to create a Linux bin...

Reading in an entire file at once in C++, part 2

Last week I discussed 6 different methods on how to quickly get an entire file into a C++ string . The conclusion was that the straight forw...

How to read in a file in C++

So here's a simple question, what is the correct way to read in a file completely in C++? Various people have various solutions, those w...

C++ 2011 and non rectangular arrays

Ever wanted to make a non rectangular array? Meaning for example, some multidimensional array where a[0] has 3 members and a[1] has 5 member...

C++ 2011 and __func__

So what happens to __func__ in different scopes? How about GCC's extension for pretty function names? #include <iostream> using n...

C++ Serialization Anyone?

Today I had one of the most amazing programming experiences that I've ever had, from my entire exciting career. I'm still a bit stun...