This is, in effect, a way to check whether the expression e can be evaluated to be 0, and if not, to fail the build. The macro is somewhat misnamed; it should be something more like BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO, rather than …ON_ZERO. (There have been occasional discussions about whether this is a confusing name.) You should read … Read more
The compiler declares the variable in a way that makes it highly prone to an error that is often difficult to find and debug, while producing no perceivable benefits. Your criticism is entirely justified. I discuss this problem in detail here: Closing over the loop variable considered harmful Is there something you can do with … Read more
The point of Dispose is to free unmanaged resources. It needs to be done at some point, otherwise they will never be cleaned up. The garbage collector doesn’t know how to call DeleteHandle() on a variable of type IntPtr, it doesn’t know whether or not it needs to call DeleteHandle(). Note: What is an unmanaged … Read more
It’s very unfortunate that you see dynamic allocation so often. That just shows how many bad C++ programmers there are. In a sense, you have two questions bundled up into one. The first is when should we use dynamic allocation (using new)? The second is when should we use pointers? The important take-home message is … Read more
An alternative approach would be to extract features (keypoints) using the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) or Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF). You can find a nice OpenCV code example in Java, C++, and Python on this page: Features2D + Homography to find a known object Both algorithms are invariant to scaling and rotation. Since they … Read more
What is the cause? Bottom Line You are trying to use something that is null (or Nothing in VB.NET). This means you either set it to null, or you never set it to anything at all. Like anything else, null gets passed around. If it is null in method “A”, it could be that method … Read more
It’s the null coalescing operator, and quite like the ternary (immediate-if) operator. See also ?? Operator – MSDN. FormsAuth = formsAuth ?? new FormsAuthenticationWrapper(); expands to: FormsAuth = formsAuth != null ? formsAuth : new FormsAuthenticationWrapper(); which further expands to: if(formsAuth != null) FormsAuth = formsAuth; else FormsAuth = new FormsAuthenticationWrapper(); In English, it means … Read more
Start debugging, as soon as you’ve arrived at a breakpoint or used Debug > Break All, use Debug > Windows > Modules. You’ll see a list of all the assemblies that are loaded into the process. Locate the one you want to get debug info for. Right-click it and select Symbol Load Information. You’ll get … Read more
static_cast static_cast is used for cases where you basically want to reverse an implicit conversion, with a few restrictions and additions. static_cast performs no runtime checks. This should be used if you know that you refer to an object of a specific type, and thus a check would be unnecessary. Example: void func(void *data) { … Read more
C++11 introduces std::stoi (and variants for each numeric type) and std::to_string, the counterparts of the C atoi and itoa but expressed in term of std::string. #include <string> std::string s = std::to_string(42); is therefore the shortest way I can think of. You can even omit naming the type, using the auto keyword: auto s = std::to_string(42); … Read more