Elevate Your Code to Modern C++11 with Automated Tooling
summary
Automated Eclipse CDT–based refactoring built over nine years performs concrete edits: it rewrites macros to constexpr or template functions, converts C arrays and char buffers to std::array/std::string (adjusting includes and checks), replaces raw pointers with references or smart pointers where safe, adds brace initialization to fix vexing parses, and can inline or qualify using-declarations. Tooling runs inside an IDE (Cevelop/Eclipse CDT), targets any compiler, shows previews, supports undo, and succeeds roughly 80% of the time on real codebases*.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Hello World
- 7:08Using namespace
- 12:10Auto
- 14:32Metrics
- 15:00Otto
- 16:39IDE
- 18:15Uniform in Visualization
- 22:34Curly Braces
- 24:29AutoCurly Brace
- 33:40Macros
- 35:31Macros are Evil
- 41:35Undo
- 44:35Arrays
- 47:35Pointers
- 49:18References
- 54:51MyMax
- 55:43Extract Template
- 58:47Future Plans
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