Tag Archives: C/C++

Nothing Could Fail in C

Posted on January 27, 2010 by jaux

Best comment of the C programming language ever! via:reddit Here is the whole story: Going back to C by buddhabrot When I was 12 someone gave me a Metrowerks IDE to learn programming on my mac. I learned a lot … Continue reading →

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Patch to Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver for Kernel 2.6.27

Posted on October 14, 2008 by jaux

Update 2009-01-04: As Jose mentioned, the latest driver (ver. 5.10.27.12) no longer needs this patch! If you have problem to compile Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver (version 5.10.27.6) on Kernel 2.6.27 and get error message like the following: /home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c: In … Continue reading →

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How To Prevent Creating Objects On Heap

Posted on December 12, 2007 by jaux

Yesterday I saw a C++ interview question that was asking the interviewees to prevent the clients from creating objects on heap. That is, you write a class and your class users can’t use new to create an object. Here is … Continue reading →

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Solving Cyclic Dependencies Is Hard

Posted on November 14, 2007 by jaux

I am a C/C++ beginner but I’d been already taught that dependency cycles are generally evil since it’s very hard to solve. I haven’t realized how hard the problem is before, because all the works I’ve done are “one file” … Continue reading →

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Weird Hex Output

Posted on October 4, 2007 by jaux

In C++, to output and integer in hex, I’d been taught to do this: cout << hex << an_integer; And if I want to show “0x” before the value, I need to do the following: cout.setf(ios::showbase); cout << hex << … Continue reading →

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