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{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

Unguaranteed Order of Pre-main Object Initialization in C++ – Any Solutions?

The C++ standard leaves the relative initialization order of global and static data undefined. The only thing that the compilers must guarantee is that all such data have been initialized before the invocation of main(). In any large and well-designed project, there are no or very few global objects. But static member data in classes [...]

2007 11 28 yzt C++
programming Comments (1)

The Films I Recommend

I do get asked sometimes to recommend movies to people. That’s a really hard thing to do. Of course, I can recommend many films off the top of my head, but would they like them is entirely another matter. This list here is in the former spirit. I’ve considered several factors in recommending these specific [...]

2007 11 18 yzt entertainment
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I Will Once More Walk with the Gods

(That’s at least once more!)
The other night, I played through the demo release of God of War: Chains of Olympus and on a PSP, no less! The demo was extremely short (5-10 minutes of gameplay) but it was mighty fun! Kratos is still slashing his way through objects, people and beasts and tearing them apart. [...]

2007 11 11 yzt entertainment Comments (0)

C++: Fun With Precompiled Headers

Those of you who have worked on middle-sized to large projects in C++ (any more than 50000 lines of code) know that build time becomes a rather important factor in the development process. On any typical project, a full build time can very well exceed 10 minutes on a modern machine. Although there are many [...]

2007 11 11 yzt C++
programming Comments (8)

Movie List Update

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Show the Movie List

No.
Title
Sizes (in MiB)
Format
Added On

1
1408
702
AVI
2007-10-28

2
16 Blocks
701
AVI
2006-06-24

3
2 Days In The Valley
682
AVI
2007-10-28

4
2 Fast, 2 Furious
700
AVI
2005-12-26

5
2001: A Space Odyssey
649
AVI
2005-12-26

6
2046
699,700
AVI
2005-11-25

7
21 Grams
998
AVI
2006-11-29

8
28 Days Later
701
AVI
2007-10-31

9
28 Weeks Later
701
AVI
2007-10-31

10
300
703
AVI
2007-03-31

11
300
701
AVI
2007-09-02

12
40 Year [...]

2007 11 06 yzt movie-list Comments (5)

KOPCS Distribution 1371

This is the long overdue package (and “ymeta” file,) containing KOPCS source code (verion 1.0.0 (codenamed Rincewind) build 1371.) The package also contains pre-built binaries mostly for Windows, but “Zero” is provided for 32-bit x86 Linux as well.
The package contains KOPCS (plus less-than-minimal documentation,) JFKOPCS scripts, yCrypto (plus documentation,) Zero, the web page templates, some [...]

2007 11 01 yzt C++
KOPCS
code
programming Comments (4)