January 2004
Volume 22 Number 1
FEATURES
Mixed-Language Development & SWIG
Phil Tomson
Phil uses SWIG to wrap C++ classes so that they are available from Ruby. In the process, he uncovers several benefits of doing mixed-language development with C++ and Ruby.
Wrapping C with C++ in .NET
George Levy
A common software requirement is for code written in one computer language to be used by software developed in a different computer language. George shows how existing C software can be wrapped in C++, thus making it more accessible from .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET.
C++, Fortran, & Shared Libraries
Dong Weiguo
Here's an approach to mixing C++ and Fortran for Linux and Windows by compiling Fortran functions separately into shared libraries, then explicitly calling them in C++.
A C++ Producer-Consumer Concurrency Template Library
Ted Yuan
Producer-consumer is a well-known C++ concurrency pattern that's been applied to applications ranging from scientific simulations to distributed parallel computing environments.
Concurrent Access Control & C++
Haifeng Li and Keshu Zhang
Our authors implement a monitor facility efficiently in only 50 simple lines—and without any extensions to Standard C++.
Policy-Driven Design & the Intel IPP Library
Shehrzad Qureshi
Shehrzad turns to generic programming techniques when using Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives Library to build a C++-based signal-processing application.
STL Member Function Adaptors
Claudio Taglienti
Have you ever wished that STL member function adaptors like mem_fun or mem_fun_ref would like you invoke a method of a class of your choice?
COLUMNS
Positive Integration
Matthew Wilson
Matthew ushers in the first three mappings—C++ wrapper classes, C++ STL, and C#—to recls, his platform-independent library that provides recursive filesystem searching.
Conversations
Herb Sutter and Jim Hyslop
The Guru tackles std::string, magic numbers, and constness in references.
Programmer's Book Reviews
Jack J. Woehr and Gregory V. Wilson
This month we examine a bevy of books, including Linux and the UNIX Philosophy, Automating UNIX and Linux Administration, Code Generation in Action, and assorted bloopers and hacks.