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Stream from a String Instead of CIN in C++

Stream from a String Instead of CIN in C++

TL;DR: You can stream from a string instead of STDIN. Code is simple and is listed below. A project I did recently had a requirement to overload the >> operator use and STDIN to load data. The problem was not the overload itself, but the fact that testing

Simple Floating Point Equality Check in C++

Simple Floating Point Equality Check in C++

TL;DR: Here you can see a handmade comparison function for floating point values. While working on a C++ project using templates, I had to perform an equality to see if two values are identical. While the == is OK for integer values, it is not really OK for floating point

Build a Simple Makefile

Build a Simple Makefile

TL;DR: If you don't have anything better to do, create Makefiles by hand :) Gist here. The other day I went back to origins with building a small C++ project. With modern tools, all went OK. However, deployment was a bit of a problem, in the sense the

C Optimisation - 2005 style

C Optimisation - 2005 style

TL;DR: This post is about an experience I had in 2004 and it’s part of my consolidating technical posts I wrote in time. It may or may not be relevant to today’s technologies. I was trying to optimize a bit of code and found out that 2

iPhone

Note: This is a really old post transferred from Laurii for historical and consolidation purposes. Last week I've got an iPhone! :) 8G. Cute little toy... I've managed to compile the toolchain for linux last night and installed my first compiled app: the Terminal.app. I'

DBus and Qt programming

DBus and Qt programming

For the past few days I've been trying to get more complex data sent via D-Bus. As one would say here in Ireland: Je'zus H. Christ Playing with python was easy. There are lots of examples on communicating complex data structures. But with Qt... It'

C optimisation

I was trying to optimize a bit of code and found out that 2 if() statements are quicker than a case with true/false. and an if/else case is WAY quicker!!! All with various optimisation levels (from nothing to O3 to O3 + architecture optimisations). Odd. one might believe that

Arrgh!

Well, I've been writing a piece of code today and it took me 3 hours to realise that strcmp(txt, "message") was giving me a segfault.. because it doesn't accept implicit parameter. putting a: const char *msg = "message"; strcmp(txt, msg); works.