The 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest will run from now until May 22. The goals of the contest are: "To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program under the rules below; to show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way; to stress C compilers with unusual code; [and] to illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language."
The RichError class provides a mechanism to instrument existing code bases for rich diagnostic composite error information, with minimal engineering overhead.
Need to add functionality to containers to make classes more STL friendly, or create new containers and iterators from scratch to make legacy code available to STL algorithms? Here's how.