C++ on saoe: The Nifty Oddity

C++ Diagnostics and Debugging Utilities

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:50:05 +0100

Some tools and techniques for detecting, reporting and investigating errors and unexpected behavior in C++ code.

Calling a Lua/C++ function from C++/Lua code

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:40:00 +0200

(Part 3 of my little series on “Lua”)

Another post in my series on how to use C++ with Lua; this time it’s about calling a function of one language from code of the other language.

A C++ program that calls a Lua script

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:27:18 +0200

(Part 2 of my little series on “Lua”)

Alright, so after preparing Lua, here are a few small first step on how to make use of this language within a C++ context.

C++ Snippets for the MS Windows platform

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:09:25 +0200

A collection of code snippets, small pearls of wisdom and bits of knowledge, that may come handy at times.

C++ Snippets

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:13:57 +0100

A collection of code snippets, general notes, small pearls of wisdom and bits of knowledge, that may come handy at times.

C++: On #include guards

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In C and C++ there exists the concept of include guards (header guards) to prevent that a header file (or rather the content of such file) is included more than once, because that could cause errors and strange behavior due to redeclarations or name collisions¹.

C++: Namespace

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:22:20 +0100

I moved the (growing) section on namespaces from the C++ Snippets page to this separate page, where I had already written some notes about using anonymous and inline namespaces in the same translation unit/file (see below).

The page therefore now also got a more generic and encompassing title.

Journal #11

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Well, looks like I somehow caught a severe case of “summer blues” last year, that’s why I didn’t code much in my spare time in the last couple of months. But now I’m slowly getting back in the saddle.

Journal #9

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The second half of 2020 was regrettably pretty unproductive for me in terms of (C++) code – that wasn’t really planned, but life is strange sometimes (… he says, sitting at home, during the COVID-19 lockdown).

How to use CMake to setup Visual Studio for using the Clang compiler

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:23:07 +0100

This is a brief post on how to use CMake to setup a Visual Studio 2019 solution on Windows that will use the LLVM Clang compiler instead of the orginal Visual C++ one.

Hotkey 1.0

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 28 May 2020 22:41:10 +0200

A small utility to scratch my own itch: Having global shortcut keys for often needed actions.

CLIOptions: Code to handle command line interface options

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:52:06 +0000

A tiny header-only C++ library to handle options (parameters, arguments, …) which are given to programs on the command line.