tools.md

Tools

Table of contents

• Build automation
  • CMake
• Code analysis and optimization tools
  • Online compilers
  • Valgrind
• Compilers
  • GCC
• Debugging
  • GDB
    • Pretty printers
• IDE
  • Visual Studio Code
• Version-control system
  • Git

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Build automation

CMake

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• Include Google Benchmark/Test in C++ project – Software Engineering Blog

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• F.Castelli. Introduction to CMake – SwedenCpp (2018)
• D.Pfeifer. Effective CMake – C++Now (2017)
• M.Ropert. Using modern CMake patterns to enforce a good modular design – CppCon (2017)
• J.Turner. Episode 78: Intro to CMake – C++ Weekly (2017)

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Code analysis and optimization tools

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• H.Matthews. Optimising a small real-world C++ application – ACCU (2019)

Online compilers

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• Compiler explorer

Valgrind

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• J.Turner. Episode 86: Valgrind compiler optimization – C++ Weekly (2017)

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Compilers

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• C++ compiler support – C++ reference

GCC

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• M.Jones GCC hacks in the Linux kernel (2008)
• Linux kernel’s __is_constexpr macro – Stack Overflow
• What are the GCC predefined macros for the compiler’s version number? – Stack Overflow

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• M.Deters. Episode 61: Internals of GCC – Software Engineering Radio (2007)

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Debugging

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• Debugging stack traces from crash dumps – Microsoft

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• H.Matthews. Optimising a small real-world C++ application – ACCU (2019)
• G.Law. Debugging Linux C++ – CppCon (2018)
• Unusual memory bit patterns
• When and why will an OS initialise memory to 0xCD, 0xDD, etc. on malloc/free/new/delete? – Stack Overflow

GDB

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• Debugging with GDB
• Identify source file name for a symbol in gdb debugger – Stack Overflow

Pretty printers

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• Sec. 10.9: Pretty printing – Debugging with GDB
• Sec. 23.2.2: Python API – Debugging with GDB
• D.Haguenauer. Writing custom GDB pretty-printers (2018)
• Pretty printing. Part I, Part II (2008)
• Make debugging easier with custom pretty-printers (2010)
• R.Sonderfeld. GDB pretty printers for Boost

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IDE

Visual Studio Code

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• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code: Getting started
• C/C++ for Visual Studio Code

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Version-control system

Git

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• How to make Git “forget” about a file that was tracked but is now in .gitignore? – Stack Overflow

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• C.Schafer. Git tutorial for beginners