October 2005
Volume 23 Number 10
FEATURES
Asynchronous I/O Streams for TCP Connections
Claus Tondering
C++ I/O Streams can make reading and writing TCP sockets as easy as reading and writing to the console&$151;and even allow for asynchronous I/O.
Static Analysis, Security Holes, & Networking Code
Andy Chou
Static analysis, which examines source code at compile time, is an effective tool for spotting security flaws. However, scaling it to large codebases is a challenge.
Event Dispatching & the GED Library
Bo Xu
Event dispatchers can vary greatly across applications and platforms. Bo presents a Generic Event Dispatcher library that corrals the commonalities among event-dispatching mechanisms.
Bitstream Parsing in C++
Edward Bishop
Mask-and-shift operations for bitstream parsing can be tedious and error prone. Edward presents several ways to improve upon the traditional approaches.
Managed String Library for C
Robert C. Seacord
Standard Library string functions like strcpy() are not considered secure by today's standards. The Managed String Library is one possible solution.
The Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions Library
Ethan McCallum
The Perl-Compatible Regular Expression Library gives you the pattern-matching power of Perl in your C and C++ programs.
C++/CLI Threading: Part I
Rex Jaeschke
Rex covers the creation and synchronization of threads in C++/CLI.
COLUMNS
Generic<Programming>
Andrei Alexandrescu
Andrei discusses some fundamental principles behind resource management in C++.
C++ Made Easier
Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo
C++ features that allow types to vary during compilation also allow compile-time computation on numbers. This can have useful side effects.
The New C++
Pete Becker
Pete continues last month's discussion of the new TR1 template class shared_ptr.
Book Review
Peter N. Roth
Peter examines Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# and C# Precisely.