POD is an acronym in C++ that means plain old data. It is a class/struct that ONLY has member variables and no methods, constructors, destructors, virtual functions, etc. For example, Example#include using namespace std; // POD struct MyStruct {    int key;    string data; }; int main() {    struct MyStruct s;    s.key = 1;    s.data = "hello";    return 0; }The struct MyStruct has no user defined ctor, dtor, etc and hence is a POD.An aggregate is an array or a class with no user-declared constructors, no private or protected non-static data members, no base ... Read More

C++ STL includes useful generic functions like std::for_each. Unfortunately, they can also be quite cumbersome to use, particularly if the functor you would like to apply is unique to the particular function. So this function that you'll create will be in that namespace just being used at that one place. The solution to this is using anonymous functions.C++ has introduced lambda expressions in C++11 to allow creating anonymous function.example#include #include #include // for_each using namespace std; int main() {    vector myvector;    myvector.push_back(1);    myvector.push_back(2);    myvector.push_back(3);    for_each(myvector.begin(), myvector.end(), [](int x) {     ... Read More

You need to use extern "C" in C++ when declaring a function that was implemented/compiled in C.Using extern "C" lets the compiler know that we want to use C naming and calling conventions. This causes the compiler to sort of entering C mode inside our C++ code. This is needed because C++ compilers mangle the names in their symbol table differently than C compilers and hence behave differently than C compilers.

POD is an acronym in C++ that means plain old data. It is a class/struct that ONLY has member variables and no methods, constructors, destructors, virtual functions, etc. For example,Example#include using namespace std; // POD struct MyStruct {     int key;     string data; }; int main() {     struct MyStruct s;     s.key = 1;     s.data = "hello";     return 0; }The struct MyStruct has no user-defined ctor, dtor, etc and hence is a POD.

C++11 is the modern C++ standard published in 2011. This brought many major extensions and improvements to the existing language. It was approved by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on 12 August 2011 and replaced C++03.C++11 was also known as C++0x. This is because, For the next revision, it was supposed that the next Standard after would be done by 2008, but since it was uncertain, it was named C++0x, where the x stood for either 8 or 9. Though planning shifted and it is now called C++11. So, C++0x was the name for the standard before it was published. ... Read More

C++11 was the modern C++ standard published in 2011. This brought many major extensions and improvements to the existing language. Following are the major changes/additions of C++11 −Initializer listsAutomatic type deductionRvalue references and move constructorsconstexpr – Generalized constant expressionsModification to the definition of plain old dataUniform initializationRange-based for loopLambda functions and expressionsAlternative function syntaxExplicit overrides and finalA constant null pointer, nullptrStrongly typed enumerationsRight angle bracket not being treated as an operator at appropriate placesVariadic templatesMultithreading memory modelAdded Hash tables to the STLAdded Regular expressions to the Standard LibraryAdded General-purpose smart pointers like shared_ptr, weak_ptr, etcAnd many more. You can get ... Read More

GCC supports different dialects of C++, corresponding to the multiple published ISO standards. Which standard it implements can be selected using the -std= command-line option.C++98 − GCC has full support for the 1998 C++ standard as modified in 2003 and renamed to C++03 and some later defect reports.C++11 − GCC 4.8.1 was the first complete implementation of the 2011 C++ standard, previously known as C++0x.C++14 − GCC has full support for the latest revision of the C++ standard, which was published in 2014.C++17 − GCC has experimental support for the next revision of the C++ standard, which is expected to ... Read More

Neither C++ (98) nor the new standard(C++0x or C++11) is fully compatible with C. C++ never was fully compatible with C.

GNU C++ compiler, g++, provides extensions to the C++ language. The difference between the two options is whether these GNU extensions that might violate the C++ standard are enabled or not. Note that some extensions can still be in effect when using -std = c++11, if they don't violate the standard.The list of extensions to the C++ language in GNU compiler can be found here − https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Extensions.html

C++ and C Standards are usually named after the year they are published in. For example, in C++, the original Standard was published in 1998, so it is called C++98, and its first correction, published in 2003 is called C++03.For the next revision, it was supposed that the next Standard after would be done by 2008, but since it was uncertain, it was named C++0x, where the x stood for either 8 or 9. Though planning shifted and it is now called C++11. So, C++0x was the name for the standard before it was published. Once it was finalized in ... Read More