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[hemmerling] C, C++ for Windows & MSDOS
Conferences, Organisations
ACCU, ACCU Conference
- ACCU. Professionalism in programming ( formerly: “Association of C and C++ Users” ).
- The free PDF magazine ACCU. Professionalism in programming "The ACCU Overload journals".
- EN.Wikipedia "Overload (magazine)" - The successor of “C/C++ Users Journal, C++ Report, and to a lesser extent, Dr Dobb's Journal”
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ADC++ Conference
- The German conference ADC++ - “Advanced Developers Conference C++. Development for Professionals!”.
- ADC++ 2016 in Erding, 2016-04-25 - 2016-04-27.
- Videos:
C++Now Conference
- The conference “C++Now” ( formerly BoostCon ).
- The conference C++Now, USA.
CppCon Conference
- The conference CppCon, USA.
Meeting C++ Conference
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- Conference Meeting C++ 2013 in Düsseldorf.
- Conference Meeting C++ 2014 in Berlin.
- Conference Meeting C++ 2015 in Berlin.
- Conference Meeting C++ 2016 in Berlin.
C++ User Groups
- Meeting C++ - Kommende C++ Events & Treffen → C++ User Gruppe Hamburg.
- XING "Modern C++" → C++ User Gruppe Hamburg.
Borland C++, Turbo C++, Turbo C
Compilers
- Borland C++ Builder.
- Hans-Georg Schumann: "C++ für Kids. Objektorientierte Programmierung für Einsteiger" ( expensive book ) - is shipped with a full version of “Borland C++ Builder 1” for Windows on CD.
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- Embarcadero "Antique Software" - Turbo C++ 1.01 for MSDOS, Turbo C 2.01 for MSDOS.
- Embarcadero "Borland C++ Compiler version 5.5 Free Download Is Here !!!" - As of 2021-09, no download offer anymore.
- Embarcadero "Borland C++ 5.5 Free Command-line Tools Supplementary Information" - “Provides explicit instructions for setting up and using the free command-line compiler.
- Embarcadero "Download the Free C++ Compiler" # - As of 2021-09, download of the free “Embarcadero C++ 10.2 'Tokyo' Compiler and Command-line Tools”. “Dieser Gratis-Download des C++-Compilers für C++Builder enthält Sprachunterstützung für C++11, das Dinkumware STL-Framework (Standard Template Library) und die vollständige Embarcadero C/C++-Runtime Library (RTL). In der Gratis-Version finden Sie ebenfalls eine Anzahl an C/C++-Kommandozeilenwerkzeugen, wie den leistungsstarken Linker und den Ressourcen-Compiler”.
- New Embarcadero Community of 2021.
- Embarcadero Blogs - There are no blogs
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- Experts told me in 2016, that the current Embarcadero C/C++ compiler is still more-or-less on the C++ language level of “Borland C/C++” of 1998, or so...., i.e. not on C++ language level C11 or even C17.
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- Some other download offers.
- Software Informer "Borland C++ Compiler 5.0" ⇒ “Borland C++ Compiler 5.5”, not “5.0”.
- WinWorld "Borland C++ 5.x" - “Borland CPP 5.02 (ISO)”.
- “This version requires 32-bit Windows 95 or NT. It can still produce executables for DOS and Windows 3.1. This was the last full version of the product before it was replaced with Borland C++ Builder. Borland released a free download of 'Borland c++ 5.5', but that was a minimal command line version”. “Installation does not ask for a serial”.
- “Make shure the line: FILES=40 is in your CONFIG.SYS file”.
- IDE ( “C:\BORLAND\BC5\bin\bcw.exe” ) - “Unsupported 16-Bit Application” error message on Win10 64-bit, but the IDE, the compiler & linker are running on Win10 64-bit.
- Archive.org "BorlandC.org" ( - 2015-11-08 ).
- Archive.org "BorlandC.org 'Download Borland C++ 3.1'" ( - 2015-10-26 ).
- MediaFire "Borland Turbo C++ 4.5 .zip". 16-bit Windows application. Does not install on Win10 64-bit.
Documentation
Tools
- MemProof - heap memory and resource “leaks” debugger for Borland C/C++ 5.5 ( and Delphi ), by Atanas Stoyanov, AutomatedQA.
- Archive.org "AutomatedQA - MemProof by Atanas Stoyanov" - Download of “memp0950.zip” ( - 2007-07-12 ).
- Stefan Cruysberghs, SCIP.be "Memproof - Find memory and resource leaks" - “MemProof, written by Atanas Stoyanov”.
- The successor of MemProof: The free SmartBear Software "AutomatedQA AQtime Standard" - “Free Performance Profiling. Discovers and eleminate bugs and bottlenegs in your software”.
Resources
- BorlandForum, China.
- Helmut Giese, Rationelle Software-Entwicklung "Good news: Tcl again supports Borland compilers" - “Tcl 8.3.3 supports Borland”.
- Archive.org "Harold Howe - BCBDEV.COM" ( - 2004-12-16 ).
- Wikipedia.
Clang for LLVM
Digital Mars
C/C++
- Digital Mars C/C++ compiler ( formerly: Datalight C / Zorland C / Zortech C and Zortech C++ / Symantec C++ ) for Win32, Win16, DOS32 and DOS, by Walter Bright.
- Digital Mars "Compiler & Tools Guide - Overview" - online documentation.
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- “Predefined Macros”.
- “Library Functions. Digital Mars C++ supports most Borland library functions. The table below lists those Borland functions that the Digital Mars C++ run-time library does not support” ⇒ inport, inportb, outport, outportb????
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D
- DE.Wikipedia "D (programming language)" - “The D programming language is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright of Digital Mars”.
- DE.Wikipedia "D (Programmiersprache)" - “D ist eine Programmiersprache, die sich äußerlich stark an C++ anlehnt”.
Downloads of outdated Software Versions
- Softoware "Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler" - “Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler 8.45”.
Resources
- EDM/2 "Zortech C++", EDM/2 "Symantec C++" - “After Symantec stopped selling the package the original developer started selling it under the Digital Mars name and currently offers the basic version of it as a free download, however that version offers support for 16 and 32 code generation for both DOS and Microsoft Windows but contains no OS/2 support”.
GNU-C/C++
Development Organisations
Compilers for DOS, DOS32, Windows
- Cygwin - “GNU + Cygnus + Windows = cygwin”.
- DJ Delorie "DJGPP" for DOS32.
- Original download for Win10 32-bit only ( does not run on Win10 64-bit ).
- No download anymore on the original website.
- mirror.koddos.net/djgpp - Download archive.
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- unzip32 A free program to unzip the archive (like PKUNZIP)
- djdev205 DJGPP V2 Development Kit and Runtime
- djlsr205 DJGPP V2 Base Library Sources
- djtst205 DJGPP V2 Test Programs (for testing the C library)
- djcrx205 DJGPP V2 Cross-to-DOS Compiler Support Files (from djlsr/djdev).
- djtzn205 DJGPP V2 Timezone Files
- djtzs205 DJGPP V2 Timezone Sources
- faq*b The full FAQ list in various formats (Info, ASCII, HTML...)
- faq*s The Texinfo sources of the FAQ and tools to generate all the different formats of the FAQ
- frfaq* DJGPP FAQ en Francais
- v2apps/ (various applications built with/for DJGPP, like RHIDE and TeX)
- v2gnu/ ports of various FSF/GNU programs to DJGPP, like gcc and binutils)
- v2tk/ (various toolkits for use with DJGPP, like Allegro and libsocket)
- v2misc/
- csdpmi* CWSDPMI, Charles Sandmann's free DPMI server binaries and docs
- mlp* ML's Executable File Packer Binaries (“djp”)
- pmode* PMODE stub for djgpp V2
- wmemu* WM's alternative 387 emulator binaries for DJGPP V2 (and other miscellaneous things to use with DJGPP
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- Installation: “set the DJGPP environment variable to point to the file DJGPP.ENV in the main DJGPP installation directory and add its BIN subdirectory to your PATH”.
- Download for Win10 64-bit.
- GitHub "andrewwutw / build-djgpp" - “Build DJGPP cross compiler and binutils on Windows (MinGW/Cygwin), Mac OSX and Linux”.
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- “I can't find any C++ cross-compiler for DOS that can run a modern Windows system”.
- “This release ( v2.8, GCC 7.2.0 ) works perfectly on Windows 10 x64. The only thing I could wish for is a newer compiler version like G++ 8 or 9”, 2019-09.
- DJGPP Frequently-Asked Questions List. Edition 2.10, for DJGPP Version 2.01. January 1997 - “Starting from v2.0, DJGPP programs do not need a separate extender program, only a DPMI server to run; DJGPP includes a free 32-bit DPMI server which allows for a 32-bit, 4 GByte flat address space and up to 256 MBytes of virtual memory, a compiler which produces 32-bit protected-mode code, and a suite of GNU development tools ported to MS-DOS”.
- The OpenSource IDE RHIDE, SourceForge "RHIDE", SourceForge "RHIDE" for MSDOS and Linux - “An IDE for DJGPP and other GNU based systems”.
- EMX for DOS32.
- Dev - EMX.OS/2 Site - OS/2 Warp software and information - EMX 0.9d download.
- Archive.org "Hobbes" ( -2016-03-04 ) - EMX 0.9d download.
- MinGW.
- Compiler.
- Open Source Development Network ( OSDN ) "MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows" ( MinGW 8.2, 9.2,.. )
- Sourceforge "MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows",
MinGW,Sourceforge "MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows"( MinGW 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.3 ).- For proper download and installation, you MUST use “mingw-get-setup.exe” of Sourceforge "MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows" - "Installer".
- To test if you properly installed MinGW, use Windows CMD, not Powershell. CMD reports missing DLLs ( “The code execution cannot proceed because XXX.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem” ), while Powershell quits without notice.
- tdm-gcc - A compiler suite for 32- and 64-bit Windows based on the GNU toolchain, Sourceforge "TDM-GCC MinGW Compiler", Sourceforge "TDM-GCC MinGW Compiler" - “GCC for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows with a real installer & updater”.
- IDE projects, which use MinGW port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler.
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- Latest stable versions with GCC 3.x: Dev-C++ 4.9.8.0 with MinGW GCC 3.2, Dev-C++ 4.9.9.1 with MinGW GCC 3.3.1.
- The help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in Windows 8.1.
- Current IDE project Orwell Dev-C++. The main site of the 2011 Dev-C++ fork, Sourceforge "Dev-C++", Sourceforge "Orwell Dev-C++. A portable C/C++/C++11 IDE" for Windows.
- Stable versions with GCC 4.x: Dev-C++ 5.7.1 with MinGW GCC 4.8.1.
- Another current IDE project Sourceforge "Dev-C++", Sourceforge " wxWidgets Dialog Designer. Dev-C++ with wxWidgets designer" for Windows.
- Ultimate++, Sourceforge "U++", Sourceforge "U++", Google Code "upp-mirror" - “A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework”.
- Quincy 2005. A Simple IDE for C/C++ for Windows - “Quincy 2005 makes it easy to use the MinGW C/C++ compiler, and the GDB debugger”.
- “MinGW Developer Studio” for Windows and Linux, by Parinya Thipchart.
- VaulTec "MinGW Developer Studio" - “As an effort to keep MinGW Developer Studio alive, I have created updated installers for MinGW Developer Studio 2.05 for Windows with a newer version of the MinGW compiler system and ResEd resource editor”.
- File index "MinGW Developer Studio" - “MinGW Developer Studio 2.06” for Linux.
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- Resources.
Debugger
- The OpenSource DDD - Data Display Debugger.
- The OpenSource RedHat Insight - The GDB GUI.
Resources
Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Tools
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- “Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003” - a free C/C++ compiler for Windows.
- Heise "Microsoft gibt C++-Compiler frei" ( 2004-04-08 ) - Explanations and details about the license agreement. A must read !.
- “Visual C++ 2005 Express”.
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- “All - Offline Install ISO image file” - This download contains an offline installer for “Visual C++ 2008 Express”.
- “All - Offline Install ISO image file” - This download contains an offline installer for “Visual C++ 2010 Express”.
- Remote debugging with Visual Studio → See Software Development Tools.
Third-Party Tools
Visual C++ 2008 Resources
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- SpringerLink Richard Kaiser: "C++ mit Microsoft Visual C++ 2008".
Visual C++ 2005 Resources
Visual C++ 2003 Resources
C++/CLI Resources
General Microsoft Resources
- MSDN "Microsoft Interface Definition Language" (MIDL) - “The Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) defines interfaces between client and server programs. Microsoft includes the MIDL compiler with the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK)”.
Resources
- Experts told me in 2016-07, that Microsoft C/C++ 2013 and C/C++ 2015 still doesn´t implement C11 completely.
NVIDIA HPC SDK ( formerly: PGI Compilers and Tools )
Tools
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- “The NVIDIA HPC Software Development Kit (SDK) includes the proven compilers, libraries and software tools essential to maximizing developer productivity and the performance and portability of HPC applications”.
- “C++17 parallel algorithms enable portable parallel programming using the Standard Template Library (STL). The NVIDIA HPC SDK C++ compiler supports full C++17 on CPUs and offloading of parallel algorithms to NVIDIA GPUs, enabling GPU programming with no directives, pragmas, or annotations. Programs that use C++17 parallel algorithms are readily portable to most C++ implementations for Linux, Windows, and macOS”.
- Software:
- Linux √.
- Windows, 2021-10: “The NVIDIA HPC SDK for Windows will be available at a later date”.
- The Portland Group "Download" - “PGI Release Archive”. No free download, even not after account registration.
Resources
- EN.Wikipedia "The Portland Group" - “On August 5, 2020, Nvidia announced that the “PGI Compilers and Tools” product line has evolved into a new NVIDIA HPC SDK product available as a free download from Nvidia. The Nvidia HPC SDK includes rebranded PGI compilers and added features for developing HPC applications”.
Open Watcom C/C++
Open Watcom C/C++
- Open Watcom for Windows, OS/2, DOS32, DOS.
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- GitHub "open-watcom / open-watcom-v2" - “Open Watcom Documentation”. “Version 2.0”, but somehow on the state of “Watcom C/C++ 11.0”, i.e. before “Open Watcom 1.0”.
- Preprocessor macros described in the manual, e.g. “_WINDOWS” and “WINDOWS_386” don't exist with “Open Watcom 1.9”.
- The data type “long long”, as available with “Open Watcom 1.9”, is not documented .
Resources
- The exe files in the “binw” directory are 16-bit applications which can´t be executed on Win10 64bit. Have a try with Win10 32-bit .
- The exe files in the “binnt” directory are 32-bit applications which can be executed on Win10 64bit.
- “C:\WATCOM\binnt\ide.exe” - The 32-bit IDE.
- gamedev.net "DOS programming in C - compiler errors" - “In K&R C and C89, all variables must be declared at the top of the scope. Declaring pScreen after non-variable declaration statements have been made is non-kosher” ⇒ This is true for WATCOM-C !!!!. If you fail, typical error message “Error! E1077: Missing '}'”, plus many other subsequent error messages .
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- Paul Hsieh "The WATCOM C/C++ Programmer's FAQ" for WATCOM 4.11a.
- Archive.org "Paul Hsieh: The WATCOM C/C++ Programmer's FAQ" for WATCOM 3.95.
- Jacek M. Sawoniewicz "C/C++ Compilers" - “C/C++ predefined macros”.
Some other C/C++ Compilers / Interpreters
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- “An embeddable C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, quick animation, and embedded scripting”.
- “Ch Standard Edition is FREEWARE for both commercial and non-commercial uses”.
- Jacob Navia: "lcc-win32" for Windows - C compiler, free for non-commercial use.
- Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - free C/C++ development system for MacOS Classic.
- Pelles C - Free C compiler ( not C/C++! ) for Windows.
C / C++ Language Resources
C Language Resources
- The free HTML and online HTML book Jürgen Wolf "C von A bis Z".
- StackOverflow "Is it possible to compile pre-ANSI (K&R-style) C code with Visual C++?" - “In order to get this to compile put the code in a .c file vs. a .cpp. This instructs Visual Studio to compile the code as C instead of C++”.
C++ Language Resources
- Experts told me in 2016-07, that C++ is a “different language” since C11.
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- Semantics Consulting, Inc./Steve Dewhurst "Local Article Archive" - C/C++ articles.
- Bruce Eckel.
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- The free HTML book Bruce Eckel "Thinking in C++ 2nd edition, VERSION TICA7", 1998 - A draft edition.
- The free book Bruce Eckel "Thinking in C++. 2nd edition ( PDF ).
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- The free online HTML book Bruno R. Preiss "Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++".
- GotW.ca: Herb Sutter - “Herb Sutter is a leading authority on software development. He is the best selling author of 'Exceptional C++' and three other books”.
- The free HTML and online HTML books Boris Schäling "Programmieren in C++: Einführung", Boris Schäling "Programmieren in C++: Aufbau" and Boris Schäling "Die Boost C++ Bibliotheken".
- Wikipedia.
Modern C++ Language Resources
- Experts told me in 2016-07, that C++ is a “different language” since C11.
- Modern C++ Features:
- Smart Pointers.
Embeddded C++ Language Resources
- Alex Robenko.
- Kvasir, Github "kvasir-io" - “Kvasir. C++ Metaprogramming library enabling better static checking and register abstraction in embedded software”.
Questionnaires, Quizzes
Literature for "Modern C++"
Literature for "Modern C++"
Literature for "Classical C++"
Resources
The C & C++ Languages
#pragma
- Borland.
- Microsoft.
( C++ 20 ) Coroutines
Language Reference
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- “C++ 20 Coroutines” ⇒ GCC 10, Clang 8 (partial), MSVC 19.28 (16.8) , Nvidia HPC C++ (ex Portland Group/PGI) NO .
Resources
Control Structures
Duff’s Device
Setjmp & Longjmp
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- “Zero if invoked directly, or nonzero if the return is the result of a call to the longjmp() function”.
- Examples:”.
- Embarcadero Doc "setjmp" - “A task state is complete enough that setjmp and longjmp can be used to implement co-routines”.
- Embarcadero Doc "longjmp" - “longjmp cannot pass the value 0; if 0 is passed in retval, longjmp will substitute 1”.
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- setjmp() saves its stack environment in env (whose type, jmp_buf, is defined in the header file) for later use by longjmp(). It returns the value 0.
- longjmp() restores the environment saved by the last call of setjmp() with the corresponding env argument. After longjmp() is completed, program execution continues as if the corresponding call of setjmp() (which must not itself have returned in the interim) had just returned the value val. longjmp() cannot cause setjmp() to return the value 0. If longjmp() is invoked with a second argument of 0, setjmp() returns 1. All accessible data values are valid as of the time longjmp() is called. https://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/setjmp.3C.html
Embedded C/C++ Aspects
Static, Consts
- StackOverflow "Const arrays in C" - “You can't create a const array because arrays are objects and can only be created at runtime and const entities are resolved at compile time”.
File I/O
Function Pointers
- StackOverflow "Can I reliably set a function pointer to NULL in C and C++?" - ”((void *)0)” in C.
Include Files
Keyboard Input ( for Linux )
- “CamelForth in C by Brad Rodriguez”( see ⇒ FORTH 4/7 ) implements a complete application solution for keyboard input on Linux.
Math
Fixed-Point Math
- GitHub "gavinhoward/bc" - “An implementation of the POSIX bc calculator with GNU extensions and dc, moved away from GitHub. Finished, but well-maintained”.
Preprocessor Macros Compiler & OS Detection
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- “_WIN32 Defined as 1 when the compilation target is 32-bit ARM, 64-bit ARM, x86, or x64. Otherwise, undefined”.
- “_WIN64 Defined as 1 when the compilation target is 64-bit ARM or x64. Otherwise, undefined”.
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- “BORLANDC”.
- Borland C++ 5.02. C++ Builder 1.0 - 0×520, 3.0 - 0×530, 4.0 - 0×540. Latest version with DOS support.
- Borland C++ 5.5. C++ Builder 5.0 - 0×550.
- Borland C++ 5.51. C++ Builder 5.0 - 0×551.
- Free Borland C++ 5.52 command line tools - 0×552. No DOS support.
( C++ ) Style Guide
Variables & Data Types
Variable Declaration at Top of Scope
- gamedev.net "DOS programming in C - compiler errors" - “In K&R C and C89, all variables must be declared at the top of the scope. Declaring pScreen after non-variable declaration statements have been made is non-kosher”.
Data Types
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- “The minimum size for char is 8 bits, the minimum size for short and int is 16 bits, for long it is 32 bits and long long must contain at least 64 bits”.
- “long long - Specified since the C99 version of the standard”.
- WATCOM-C datatypes:
- INTEGER*4 ⇒ 32 bit.
- COMPLEX*16 ⇒ REAL 64 bit, IMAGINARY 64 bit ⇒ 64 bit.
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- 32-bit UNIX and Linux applications.
- 64-bit UNIX and Linux applications.
- Windows 64-bit applications.
Limits ( INT_MAX,.. )
- StackOverflow "Detecting CPU architecture compile-time".
#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_X64) #elif defined(i386) || defined(__i386__) || defined(__i386) || defined(_M_IX86)
long long
- The data type “long long” ( 64-bit long ) is not available with Arduino AVR C/C++ and Borland C++ 5.5.1.
Printing / Text Output
- StackOverflow "How to printf long long" - ”%lld is the standard C99 way”.
"struct" vs "typedef struct"
Value Conversions ( String to Integer, to Float )
Resources
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre ( JSC) "WWW C++ Information" - link directory.
- Comeau.
- Comeau's Resource Page - “Comeau is proud to provide you with a repository of C++ links and resources”.
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- Standard C++ # - “The home of Standard C++ on the web — news, status and discussion about the C++ standard on all compilers and platforms”.
- Wikipedia.
Forums, Newsgroups
- Cprogramming.com CBoard - Your Resource for C and C++.
- Facebook:
- Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.commandlinetools", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.graphics", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.language.cpp", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.non-technical", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.oodesign", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.oodesign", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.students", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.thirdpartytools", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.vcl.components.using", Google Groups "borland.public.cppbuilder.vcl.components.writing".
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