Month: January 2018
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Do compilers take inline as a hint?
If you’ve spent any time in C or C++ communities online, you’ve probably seen someone say this: inline used to be a hint for compilers to inline the definition, but no compilers actually take that into account any more. You shouldn’t believe ever…
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Questions and answers about Pepper3
Series: Examples, Questions My last post Examples of Pepper3 code was a reply to my friend’s email asking what it was all about. They replied with some questions, and I thought the questions and answers might shed some more light: Questions! Brillian…
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Examples of Pepper3 code
Series: Examples, Questions I have restarted my effort to make a new programming language that fits the way I like things. I haven’t pushed any code yet, but I have made a lot of progress in my head to understand what I want. Here are some random examp…
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Passing overload sets to functions
Passing functions to functions is becoming increasingly prevalent in C++. With common advice being to prefer algorithms to loops, new library features like std::visit, lambdas being incrementally beefed up12 and C++ function programming talks consisten…
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Constantly Confusing: C++ const and constexpr pointer behaviour
A quick explanation of how const and constexpr work on pointers in C++So I was checking that my knowledge was correct when working on a Firefox bug.I made a quick C++ file with all the examples I know of how to use const and constexpr on pointers.As on…
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Working with PDF Highlight Annotations Programmatically
PDFs are the format of choice in academia, but extracting the information they contain is annoyingly hard.I’ve just started working on my degree’s final project. An academic project requires lots of research, which means reading lots of papers.Papers a…
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Recording gameplay videos on RetroPie
Stop! This blog post is out of date – see Recording gameplay videos on RetroPie for a live version in github that may be more helpful. Credits: this is a slightly corrected and shortened version of How To Record A GamePlay Video From A RetroPie by sels…
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Resizable UIWindow on iOS
I came across a Todo item in my inbox (I often email myself things todo) whilst tidying it up following Christmas, entitled “Make a resizable UIWindow”. I can remember sending this to myself but not what I was reading or watching that prompted me to do…
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Resizable UIWindow on iOS
I came across a Todo item in my inbox (I often email myself things todo) whilst tidying it up following Christmas, entitled “Make a resizable UIWindow”. I can remember sending this to myself but not what I was reading or watching that prompted me to do…