Mundane C tricks ...

[taniwha]

Ah, yes, memset and C++ objects is dangerous (more charred fingers). I learned to go very carefully though the list of fields in my constructors.

[revelator]

The code was allready there from stock ID source so might have been an oversight when they started porting stuff from C to C++
atleast its Things that teach you to be very carefull not to treat OO code the same as C hehe.
I learn a bit more every day and while most C operations are also valid in C++ there are a few differences like the
beforementioned example that one has to be aware of.

And merry Christmas all

[Baker]

I just discovered printf "%g". I swear I've read printf formatting docs a million times.

It is rather difficult to identify which version of C it became a standard, so maybe this format specifier didn't always exist or something.

%g prints a float, but without the superfluous zeros 1.000000000000000000000

/Strange that I had to clear cookies in browser to log-in to this site successfully. Without doing so, I got logged out immediately any time I tried in the last few days, and a crapton of PHP header "already included" stuff appears atop the page.

[taniwha]

Yeah, %g is nice. QF has been using it for a while (especially in that builtin that goes to pains to strip trailing 0s). I've almost forgotten %f exists .

[frag.machine]

[Baker]

[revelator]

Heh recently discovered %p for printing pointers, somewhat weird experience since earlier msvc newer bitched about using any of the other print types but msvc2012 seems to have taken a new approach (%p also Works in msvc2010 but i havent tried in earlier versions yet).

Kinda hope clang catches up and will be supported by C::B its error checking is a revelation compared to gcc's but speedwise it still lacks some compared and it has no own standard library yet that im aware of so it uses gcc's.

[Baker]