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| This part deals with the functions called and objects created |
| automatically during the course of a program's existence. |
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| While we can't reproduce the contents of the Standard here (you |
| need to get your own copy from your nation's member body; see our |
| homepage for help), we can mention a couple of changes in what |
| kind of support a C++ program gets from the Standard Library. |
| </p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="std.support.types"></a>Types</h2></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.support.types.fundamental"></a>Fundamental Types</h3></div></div></div><p> |
| C++ has the following builtin types: |
| </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p> |
| char |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| signed char |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| unsigned char |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| signed short |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| signed int |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| signed long |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| unsigned short |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| unsigned int |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| unsigned long |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| bool |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| wchar_t |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| float |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| double |
| </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> |
| long double |
| </p></li></ul></div><p> |
| These fundamental types are always available, without having to |
| include a header file. These types are exactly the same in |
| either C++ or in C. |
| </p><p> |
| Specializing parts of the library on these types is prohibited: |
| instead, use a POD. |
| </p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.support.types.numeric_limits"></a>Numeric Properties</h3></div></div></div><p> |
| The header <code class="filename"><limits></code> defines |
| traits classes to give access to various implementation |
| defined-aspects of the fundamental types. The traits classes -- |
| fourteen in total -- are all specializations of the class template |
| <code class="classname">numeric_limits</code> |
| and defined as follows: |
| </p><pre class="programlisting"> |
| template<typename T> |
| struct class |
| { |
| static const bool is_specialized; |
| static T max() throw(); |
| static T min() throw(); |
| |
| static const int digits; |
| static const int digits10; |
| static const bool is_signed; |
| static const bool is_integer; |
| static const bool is_exact; |
| static const int radix; |
| static T epsilon() throw(); |
| static T round_error() throw(); |
| |
| static const int min_exponent; |
| static const int min_exponent10; |
| static const int max_exponent; |
| static const int max_exponent10; |
| |
| static const bool has_infinity; |
| static const bool has_quiet_NaN; |
| static const bool has_signaling_NaN; |
| static const float_denorm_style has_denorm; |
| static const bool has_denorm_loss; |
| static T infinity() throw(); |
| static T quiet_NaN() throw(); |
| static T denorm_min() throw(); |
| |
| static const bool is_iec559; |
| static const bool is_bounded; |
| static const bool is_modulo; |
| |
| static const bool traps; |
| static const bool tinyness_before; |
| static const float_round_style round_style; |
| }; |
| </pre></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.support.types.null"></a>NULL</h3></div></div></div><p> |
| The only change that might affect people is the type of |
| <code class="constant">NULL</code>: while it is required to be a macro, |
| the definition of that macro is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> allowed |
| to be an expression with pointer type such as |
| <code class="constant">(void*)0</code>, which is often used in C. |
| </p><p> |
| For <span class="command"><strong>g++</strong></span>, <code class="constant">NULL</code> is |
| <code class="code">#define</code>'d to be |
| <code class="constant">__null</code>, a magic keyword extension of |
| <span class="command"><strong>g++</strong></span> that is slightly safer than a plain integer. |
| </p><p> |
| The biggest problem of #defining <code class="constant">NULL</code> to be |
| something like <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">0L</span>”</span> is that the compiler will view |
| that as a long integer before it views it as a pointer, so |
| overloading won't do what you expect. It might not even have the |
| same size as a pointer, so passing <code class="constant">NULL</code> to a |
| varargs function where a pointer is expected might not even work |
| correctly if <code class="code">sizeof(NULL) < sizeof(void*)</code>. |
| The G++ <code class="constant">__null</code> extension is defined so that |
| <code class="code">sizeof(__null) == sizeof(void*)</code> to avoid this problem. |
| </p><p> |
| Scott Meyers explains this in more detail in his book |
| <a class="link" href="https://www.aristeia.com/books.html" target="_top"><span class="emphasis"><em>Effective |
| Modern C++</em></span></a> and as a guideline to solve this problem |
| recommends to not overload on pointer-vs-integer types to begin with. |
| </p><p> |
| The C++ 2011 standard added the <code class="constant">nullptr</code> keyword, |
| which is a null pointer constant of a special type, |
| <code class="classname">std::nullptr_t</code>. Values of this type can be |
| implicitly converted to <span class="emphasis"><em>any</em></span> pointer type, |
| and cannot convert to integer types or be deduced as an integer type. |
| Unless you need to be compatible with C++98/C++03 or C you should prefer |
| to use <code class="constant">nullptr</code> instead of <code class="constant">NULL</code>. |
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