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Besides the normal features that are activated automatically upon inclusion of the library, as well as the Supplements, there are a number of side-projects that don't count as part of cxxomfort's distribution proper. They are being developed separately and rather than integrate with cxxomfort tightly they just depend on the library as a whole.

The idea is to pick a number of features, proposals or general C++ concepts and implement them separately. There are a number of reasons to tackle these features separately:

• the syntax to implement them is too different to C++'s normal syntax (heavy macros, etc) or is too heavy.
• the feature is more advanced or convoluted and benefits from being decoupled from most cxxomfort internals.
• the feature is heavily compiler-dependent.
• the feature is not standardized yet and/or present only as a proposal.

In order to use these features, they can be cloned or downloaded from their specific repositories.

Last update of this listing: November 2018

List of Extras

• cxxo-literal_affixes - An emulation of C++11's suffix user-defined literals, that also work as normal function objects.
• cxxo-auto - Backporting auto in a limited manner.
• cxxo-static_storage - A storage for types that makes them act as "literal" types like ints: objects are never destructed during the program's lifetime, and references/handles to them are passed around instead.
• cxxo-udl - An implementation of suffix user-defined literals, simpler than the one above.
• cxxo-optional - An implementation of std::optional that works with C++03 without many additions, and keeps most semantics.
• cxxo-variant - An implementation of std::variant that works with C++03 in a limited manner.
• cxxo-any - An implementation of std::any that works with C++03 in a limited manner.
• cxxo-minrange - A minimalistic std::range proposal built around n3350 "A minimal std::range".
• cxxo-tuple_io - Stream output operators for std::tuple .

Descriptions

Auto/Decltype Emulation

Header: cxxomfort/extras/auto.hpp .
Macro: if enabled, CXXOMFORT_USING_auto is defined.

This header adds the following macros:

CXXO_AUTO( variablename, expr )
CXXO_DECLTYPE( expr )

The above macros allow for emulation of C++11's new "auto" and "decltype" semantics if the compiler supports an equivalent semantic such as typeof in C++03 mode (as GCC's __typeof__). Usage is very simple:

typdef std::list<short> SHL_t; // short-list type
SHL_t shl;
...
CXXO_AUTO (M, shl.size() );
// M is automatically declared as eg.: an unsigned int in this case
...
cout<< M<< endl;

In C++11, the macros extend simply to auto variablename = expr and decltype(expr) respectively.

In C++03, the macros extend to a compiler-supported "typeof" invocation; if none is available, compilation fails with an error messaage of "typeof not supported".

Requirements:

• In non-C++11 mode, the compiler must support a keyword like __typeof__.

Known Limitations:

• This feature works in Microsoft C++ ≥ 8.0 thanks to a combination of documented hacks for typeof emulation; however, in this case it can not be used in all the contexts a normal __typeof__ can, so use with caution.
• When in C++03 mode, remember "typeof" intrinsics may not resolve reference types the same way C++11's decltype does.

»Possible Future Features

I'm considering adding some features that are either from C++11 or from current proposals for TR2 / C++2x and that are easy enough and useful enough to have them implemented in this library. No more details at the moment though.

In consideration at the moment of this writing:

• default-value-initialized wrapper (from Boost).
• "degenerate" (primitive type + singular term) proposal.
• begin/end for typesafe enumeration types.
• Fixed-time calculation versions for equal, mismatch and the find_* family of algorithms.

• Back to Main Features Documentation.
• Implementation Status for C++ proposals.
• Back to the beginning.