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Expert C++

By : Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
Book Image

Expert C++

By: Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu

Overview of this book

C++ has evolved over the years and the latest release – C++20 – is now available. Since C++11, C++ has been constantly enhancing the language feature set. With the new version, you’ll explore an array of features such as concepts, modules, ranges, and coroutines. This book will be your guide to learning the intricacies of the language, techniques, C++ tools, and the new features introduced in C++20, while also helping you apply these when building modern and resilient software. You’ll start by exploring the latest features of C++, and then move on to advanced techniques such as multithreading, concurrency, debugging, monitoring, and high-performance programming. The book will delve into object-oriented programming principles and the C++ Standard Template Library, and even show you how to create custom templates. After this, you’ll learn about different approaches such as test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and domain-driven design (DDD), before taking a look at the coding best practices and design patterns essential for building professional-grade applications. Toward the end of the book, you will gain useful insights into the recent C++ advancements in AI and machine learning. By the end of this C++ programming book, you’ll have gained expertise in real-world application development, including the process of designing complex software.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Under the Hood of C++ Programming
7
Section 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
17
Section 3: C++ in the AI World

Understanding static and dynamic analysis

In the previous sections, we learned about the root cause analysis process and how to use GDB to debug a defect. This section will discuss how to analyze a program with and without executing it. The former is called dynamic analysis, while the latter is called static analysis.

Static analysis

Static analysis evaluates the quality of a computer program without executing it. Although this can usually be done by examining source code via automatic tools and code reviews/inspections, we will only focus on automatic tools in this section.

The automatic static code analysis tools are designed to analyze a set of code against one or multiple sets of coding rules or guidelines. Normally, people...