December 2008 - Posts

• Enable syntax highlighting for TR1 headers in VS2008 SP1

  Unfortunately, VS2008 SP1 doesn't recognize C++ tr1 headers. That means there are no syntax highlighting and no intellisense for these files. This is a bug, but you can fix it by yourself. The trick is in the registry. VS maintains a list of extensionless Read More... Posted Saturday, December 13, 2008 3:39 AM by xiangfan | 2 Comments Filed under: VC Attachment(s): tr1.reg

• VC extensions list

  MSDN has a page describing various VC extensions. But it is far from complete. I've collected a list of nonstandard extensions provided by VC, some of them are evil . If you want to write standard conformant C++ code, you'd better be aware of these extensions Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:36 PM by xiangfan | 2 Comments Filed under: C++, VC

• Contiguousness of STL containers and string

  In C++, it is well-known that the data in the vector is contiguous. To be more specific, here is the quotation from the standard (C++03, 23.2.4/1) The elements of a vector are stored contiguously, meaning that if v is a vector<T, Allocator> where Read More... Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:38 AM by xiangfan | 1 Comments Filed under: C++