Safe C++

How to avoid common mistakes

It’s easy to make lots of programming mistakes in C++—in fact, any program over a few hundred lines is likely to contain bugs. With this book, you’ll learn about many common coding errors that C++ programmers produce, along with rules and strategies you can use to avoid them.

Author Vladimir Kushnir shows you how to use his Safe C++ library, based in part on programming practices developed by the C++ community. You’ll not only find recipes for identifying errors during your program’s compilation, runtime, and testing phases, you’ll learn a comprehensive approach for making your C++ code safe and bug-free.

• Get recipes for handling ten different error types, including memory leaks and uninitialized variables
• Discover problems C++ inherited from C, like pointer arithmetic
• Insert temporary and permanent sanity checks to catch errors at runtime
• Apply bug prevention techniques, such as using separate classes for each data type
• Pursue a testing strategy to hunt and fix one bug at a time—before your code goes into production