C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices

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Take warnings to heart: Use your compiler's highest warning level. Require clean (warning-free) builds. Understand all warnings. Eliminate warnings by changing your code, not by...

Your compiler is your friend. If it issues a warning for a certain construct, often there's a potential problem in your code. Successful builds should be...

Example 1: A third-party header file. A library header file that you cannot change could contain a construct that causes (probably benign) warnings. Then wrap...

Sometimes, a compiler may emit a tedious or even spurious warning (i.e., one that is mere noise) but offer no way to turn it off,...

[Meyers97] §48 • [Stroustrup94] §2.6.2...