Some Notes About Linking in C++

Monday, February 3, 2020

One thing that came to my mind frequently, while I was working with C++, was that how to link external libraries to my projects. A lot of the time, when I see a project on Github, I see the source code and a makefile, but I don't know what I suppose to do with them. Do I need to compile them, to a special format? How do I compile them? So today, I decided to resolve this mystery as a gift for myself.…more

Perfect Forwarding And Universal Reference

Friday, January 17, 2020

While I was learning mtrebi's threadpool implementation, I noticed some peculiar usage of &&, which looked like this. template<typename F, typename...Args> auto submit(F&& f, Args&&... args) -> std::future<decltype(f(args...))> { && is known for rvalue reference in C++, but what does it mean in this context? To answer this question, I did some research and figured it was called universal reference. The term universal reference was coined by Scott Meyers, and it is used to describe references that may be either lvalue references or rvalue references may bind to anything.…more