Tag Archives: const

Add a const here, delete a const there…

Posted on January 8, 2017 by brucedawson

Update, February 2019: Two years later the VC++ bug I reported here still exists, even in VS 2019 preview. However Chromium no longer builds with VC++ so I’m reverting the changes where I deleted const in order to make some … Continue reading →

Posted in Performance, Programming, Visual Studio | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

Please Calculate This Circle’s Circumference

Posted on June 26, 2014 by brucedawson

“Please write a C++ function that takes a circle’s diameter as a float and returns the circumference as a float.” It sounds like the sort of question you might get in the first week of a C++ programming class. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Floating Point, Programming | Tagged , , , | 76 Comments