Programming Pointers
Dan Saks, a widely recognized expert in C and C++, offers tips and techniques to embedded developers.
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Dan Saks
5/2/2012 6:24 PM EDT
Dan Saks crunches over 12 years of data on programming-language preferences from reader studies and finds some surprises about C/C++.
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lwriemen
The same can be said for Executable UML models as well, but the poll doesn't show much adoption in ...
Dan Saks
4/4/2012 1:21 PM EDT
Class derivation and virtual functions let you define a common interface for related classes with similar, yet distinct, behaviors.
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Luis Sanchez
Looks like there's still is a lot to learn about C++. I think I already heard before about Virtual ...
Dan Saks
2/27/2012 12:14 PM EST
Discriminated unions can be useful in some applications, but they also provide insight into the advantages of using virtual functions.
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DickH
this is common to all OOP languages - a class KNOWS which class it is, what kind of object an ...
Dan Saks
12/6/2011 4:02 PM EST
Writing better hardware interfaces may require writing fairly elaborate declarations. It's probably worth the effort.
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Dan_Saks
That 0x12 should have been just 12. Thanks for catching the typo.
Using member new to map devices
Dan Saks
11/18/2011 10:00 AM EST
Declaring operator new as a class member can be a handy way to provide guaranteed initialization for memory-mapped objects.
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lonewanderer
I use a chip that has 6 identical UARTs that differ only in the base address of the memory mapped ...
Calling constructors with placement new
Dan Saks
8/31/2011 1:50 PM EDT
New with placement offers C++ developers explicit control over how and when to initialize memory-mapped objects.
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SWKoder
It seems like this solution is overly complex. Why not use the constructor's initializer list? This ...
Difficulties constructing memory-mapped objects
Dan Saks
7/29/2011 7:21 PM EDT
Defining constructors for classes representing memory-mapped devices is a good idea, if only you could get those constructors to run automatically.
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wdwinder
Im not following how placing the entire class at a specific location is getting the memory mapped ...
Dan Saks
6/1/2011 12:09 PM EDT
Using member initializers offers more control over what constructors do, and helps eliminate unnecessary default initialization.
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tbakshi
Also , apart from initializing const member data variables which could not be done without member ...
Insights into member initialization
Dan Saks
4/27/2011 7:27 PM EDT
Often when it seems that C++ is generating bigger and slower code than C, it may be that C++ is actually just distributing generated code differently.
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Constructors and object definitions
Dan Saks
3/2/2011 6:57 PM EST
C++ compilers generate translate object definitions into constructor calls. Dan explains what to expect from the generated code.
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antiquus
A little bit of "object oriented" programming can go a long way in keeping your C code clean. The ...
