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Before you start yelling undefined behaviour, this is explicitly listed in N4659 (C++17) i = i++ + 1; // the value of i ...

C, Programming

IT Nursery

Through a little typo, I accidentally found this construct: int main(void) { char foo = 'c'; switch(foo) { printf("Cant Touch This\n"); // This ...

I’m learning/experimenting with Rust, and in all the elegance that I find in this language, there is one peculiarity that baffles me and ...

I was reading about order of evaluation violations, and they give an example that puzzles me. 1) If a side effect on a ...

One of my kids is taking Java in high school and had this on one of his tests: Which of the following is ...

Is it possible for C++ code to conform to both the C++03 standard and the C++11 standard, but do different things depending on ...

This question already has an answer here: Resolving ambiguous overload on function pointer and std::function for a lambda using + (unary plus) (1 ...

Maybe I am not from this planet, but it would seem to me that the following should be a syntax error: int a ...

How many pointers (*) are allowed in a single variable? Let’s consider the following example. int a = 10; int *p = &a; ...

Consider the main axis and cross axis of a flex container: Source: W3C To align flex items along the main axis there is ...