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Hands-On System Programming with C++

You're reading from   Hands-On System Programming with C++ Build performant and concurrent Unix and Linux systems with C++17

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137880
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with System Programming 2. Learning the C, C++17, and POSIX Standards FREE CHAPTER 3. System Types for C and C++ 4. C++, RAII, and the GSL Refresher 5. Programming Linux/Unix Systems 6. Learning to Program Console Input/Output 7. A Comprehensive Look at Memory Management 8. Learning to Program File Input/Output 9. A Hands-On Approach to Allocators 10. Programming POSIX Sockets Using C++ 11. Time Interfaces in Unix 12. Learning to Program POSIX and C++ Threads 13. Error – Handling with Exceptions 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

A brief overview of C++17

The goal of this section is to provide a brief overview of C++17 and the features added to C++. For a more comprehensive and in-depth look at C++17, please see the Further reading section of this chapter, which list additional books from Packt Publishing on the topic.

Language changes

There were several changes made to the C++17 language and syntax. The following are some examples.

Initializers in if/switch statements

In C++17, it is now possible to define a variable and initialize it in the definition of an if and switch statement, as follows...

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