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What are the differences between a pointer variable and a reference variable?

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Why design a language with unique anonymous types?

answered Jul 31, 2020 at 7:00

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Which is more efficient, basic mutex lock or atomic integer?

answered Sep 12, 2013 at 2:48

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Is declaration of variables expensive?

answered Jan 1, 2015 at 21:07

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Why should I always enable compiler warnings?

answered Sep 9, 2019 at 5:27

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Threadsafe lazy initialization: static vs std::call_once vs double checked locking

answered Nov 29, 2014 at 20:16

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Passing shared_ptr to lambda by value leaks memory

answered Sep 15, 2013 at 23:10

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Is it possible for a missing #include to break the program at runtime?

answered Mar 20, 2020 at 19:47

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Is it OK for a class constructor to block forever?

answered Nov 8, 2020 at 1:48

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RAII vs. Garbage Collector

answered Jun 2, 2017 at 23:45

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Is there a limit to the number of nested 'for' loops?

answered Dec 27, 2016 at 20:03

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What is the address of a function in a C++ program?

answered Dec 26, 2015 at 19:18

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Why are types always a certain size no matter its value?

answered Jun 13, 2018 at 3:57

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C++ struct member functions definitions have differences if they are defined outside the struct body ?

answered Sep 11, 2013 at 23:33

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What does `std::kill_dependency` do, and why would I want to use it?

answered Sep 3, 2013 at 5:51

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in the character pointer array str what is the meaning of str+i as well as str[i]

answered Jul 13, 2021 at 13:54

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Is using non standard English characters in c# names a bad practice?

answered Aug 16, 2016 at 23:53

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Is the order of evaluation with comma operator & assignment in C predictable?

answered Apr 30, 2016 at 2:31

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Stuffing a -1 in a pointer as a special value

answered Jul 8, 2014 at 17:01

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C++ references - are they just syntactic sugar?

answered Jul 7, 2015 at 17:15

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Scope of a 'for' loop at declaration of a variable

answered Sep 3, 2015 at 16:04

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What is the difference between a variable, object, and reference?

answered Aug 14, 2015 at 21:37

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Return value optimization for string_view inside shared_ptr

answered Mar 19, 2021 at 18:03

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What's the difference between unique_lock and shared_lock in C++

answered Aug 4, 2020 at 4:59

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Why is the complexity of BFS O(V+E) instead of O(E)?

answered Aug 9, 2020 at 1:42

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When RAII is not an option, how to ensure a function is called before end of scope of an object?

answered Mar 23 at 1:17

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Is the difference between the addresses of a function's parameters always 4 bytes?

answered Jul 17, 2019 at 21:58

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Simple C++ multithreading example is slower

answered Sep 12, 2022 at 15:43

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At what point in the loop does integer overflow become undefined behavior?

answered Oct 7, 2016 at 21:04

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in C++, how to make sure that one object is constructed before another object ?

answered Sep 12, 2013 at 2:24

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What are the differences between a pointer variable and a reference variable?

Why design a language with unique anonymous types?

Which is more efficient, basic mutex lock or atomic integer?

Is declaration of variables expensive?

Why should I always enable compiler warnings?

Threadsafe lazy initialization: static vs std::call_once vs double checked locking

Passing shared_ptr to lambda by value leaks memory

Is it possible for a missing #include to break the program at runtime?

Is it OK for a class constructor to block forever?

RAII vs. Garbage Collector

Is there a limit to the number of nested 'for' loops?

What is the address of a function in a C++ program?

Why are types always a certain size no matter its value?

C++ struct member functions definitions have differences if they are defined outside the struct body ?

What does `std::kill_dependency` do, and why would I want to use it?

in the character pointer array str what is the meaning of str+i as well as str[i]

Is using non standard English characters in c# names a bad practice?

Is the order of evaluation with comma operator & assignment in C predictable?

Stuffing a -1 in a pointer as a special value

C++ references - are they just syntactic sugar?

Scope of a 'for' loop at declaration of a variable

What is the difference between a variable, object, and reference?

Return value optimization for string_view inside shared_ptr

What's the difference between unique_lock and shared_lock in C++

Why is the complexity of BFS O(V+E) instead of O(E)?

When RAII is not an option, how to ensure a function is called before end of scope of an object?

Is the difference between the addresses of a function's parameters always 4 bytes?

Simple C++ multithreading example is slower

At what point in the loop does integer overflow become undefined behavior?

in C++, how to make sure that one object is constructed before another object ?