C++:The Making of a Standard

PartⅠ Preliminaries

1 A Better C

A Tale Of Two Languages

Incremental Journey

The Type System

Function Prototypes

Type-safe Linkage

References

Type-safe I/O

Standard Streams

Formatting

Manipulators

Function Overloading and Function Templates

Operator Overloading

Inline Functions

Default Arguments

new and delete

Statement Declarations

Standard Library Features

C Compatibility

Summary

2 Pointers

Programming on the Edge

The Basics

Pointer Arithmetic

Pass-By-Reference Semantics

Generic Pointers

const Pointers

Pointers and One-Dimensional Arrays

Arrays as Parameters

Arrays of Strings

Pointers and Multidimensional Arrays

Higher and Deeper

Pointers to Functions

Pointers to Member Functions

Encapsulation and Incomplete Types

Summary

3 The Preprocessor

The #include Directive

Other Preprocessor Directives

Predefined Macros

Conditional Compilation

Preprocessing Operators

Implementing assert

Macro Magic

Character Sets,Trigraphs,and Digraphs

Phases of Translation

Summary

4 The Standard C Library,Part Ⅰ

5 The Standard C Library,Part Ⅱ

Appendix 5.1:Character Sets

Code Pages

Character Set Standards

ISO 10646

Unicode

6 The Standard C Library,Part Ⅲ

va_list s As Arguments

An Application

Conclusion

Appendix 6.1:Floating-point Number Systems

Part Ⅱ Key Concepts

7 Abstraction

Data Abstraction

Operator Overloading

Concrete Data Types

Type Abstraction

Function Abstraction

Summary

8 Templates

Generic Programming

Function Templates

Class Templates

Template Parameters

Template Specialization

Summary

9 Bit Manipulation

Bitwise Operators

Accessing Individual Bits

Large Bitsets

The bitset Template

Wish List

Bit Strings

The vectorTemplate Specialization

Summary

10 Conversions and Casts

Integral Promotion

Demotions

Arithmetic Conversions

Function Prototypes

Explicit Conversions

Function-style Casts

Const Correctness

User-Defined Conversions

Beefing up operator［］

New-Style Casts

Summary

What s In a Name?

Scope

11 Visibility

Minimal Scoping

Class Scope

Nested Classes

Local Classes

Classic Namespaces

Namespace Scope

Lifetime

Lifetime of Temporaries

Linkage

Type-safe Linkage

Summary

Language Linkage

12 Control Structures

Structured Programming

Branching

Nonlocal Branching

Signals

Summary

References

13 Exceptions

Error Handling Alternatives

Stack Unwinding

Catching Exceptions

Standard Exceptions

Constructors and Exceptions

Resource Management

Memory Management

Exception Specifications

An Error-Handling Strategy

Summary

14 Object-oriented Programming

Inheritance

Heterogeneous Collections

Virtual Functions and Polymorphism

Abstract Base Classes

Case Study:A Framework for Object Persistence

Database Access

Mapping Objects to Relational Schema

PFX Architecture

A Code Walkthrough

Summary

Part Ⅲ Leveraging the Standard Library

15 Algorithms

Complexity

Generic Algorithms

Function Objects

Function Taxonomy

Function Object Adapters

Algorithm Taxonomy

16 Containers and Iterators

Summary

References

Standard Containers

Iterators

Iterator Taxonomy

Special-Purpose Iterators

Container Adapters

Associative Containers

Applications

Non-STL Containers

Summary

17 Text Processing

scanf

printf

Substrings

The Standard C++ String Class

String Streams

Wide Strings

Summary

18 File Processing

Filters

Binary Files

Record Processing

Temporary Files

Portability

POSIX

File Descriptors

Copying Files via Descriptors

Reading Directory Entries

Redirecting Standard Error

Encapsulating Directory Operations

Summary

19 Time and Date Processing

Julian Day Encoding

Date Classes for Real Work

Calculating the Week of the Year

Summary

Reference

20 Dynamic Memory Management

Ragged Arrays

Using the Heap in Standard C

The C++ Free Store

Deep versus Shallow Copy

Handling Memory Allocation Failure

Overriding new and delete

Placement new

Managing the Heap

Avoiding Memory Management

Summary

Appendices

A C/C++ Compatibility

B Standard C++ Algorithms

C Function Objects and Adapters

Function Objects

Function Object Adapters

D Annotated Bibliography

The C Practitioner s Booklist

The C++ Practitioner s Booklist

Index