C++ in a Nutshell

Errata

Last updated: March 28, 2005.

Deletions are shown with ~~red strike-through style~~. Insertions are in blue bold italics. Please send additional errata to cpp @ tempest-sw.com.

Thanks to Paul Bailey, Reed Hedges, James Jennings, Chris Lattner, Michael Kochetkov, Matthias Ragaz, Stefan Stoll, and Ranko Veselinovic for finding and reporting errors.

p. 25, between 4th and 5th items at the top of the page, insert:

unsigned int: Represents an unsigned integer in a size that is natural for the host environment.

p. 28, line 3 of the typedef example:

typedef double matrix[3][3] matrix;

p. 35, second code block, lines 4, 6, 8:

int & &rr;         (insert a space between & and &)
int *&* rp = &r;
int *&* pr = p;

p. 35, Example 2-12 and the discussion before it are wrong. The reference to const does not eliminate any copying of the structure returned from std::div.

p. 42: last line on page: change:

packages in a single ~~source file~~program.

p. 45: Example 2-17: insert "ns" in line 5

namespace ns = original;     // Alias

p. 59: last line, append:

depth; each subsection covers a single precedence group. The following descriptions apply only to the built-in operators. You can overload many operators for user-defined types (enumerations and classes). See Chapter 5 for more information.

p. 149: 2nd full paragraph:

...object, then the copy constructor is called to copy the temporary object into pz. (The compiler is allowed to optimize away the copy and initialize pz directly. Most...

p. 150: line 3 of first code fragment:

return pz;

p. 251:

insert "const": bool empty() const

insert "iterator": erase(iterator first, iterator last)

insert "const": bool max_size() const

insert "const": bool size() const

p. 296 (const qualifier) insert in first paragraph:

(line 3) cannot be the target of an assignment, and you cannot call any of its non-const member

(line 7) member function, this is a const pointer to const, and the member function can be called for

p. 298 (declarator) insert quotes around literal square brackets:

direct-declarator ::= declarator-id |
    direct-declarator ( parm-decl-clause ) [cv-qualifier-seq] [exception-specification] |
    direct-declarator "[" [constant-expr] "]" |
    ( declarator )

direct-abstract-declarator ::=
    [direct-abstract-declarator] ( parm-decl-clause ) [cv-qualifier-seq] [exception-specification] |
    [direct-abstract-declarator] "[" [constant-expr] "]" |
    ( abstract-declarator )

p. 330: first paragraph of adjacent_find: move asterisk outside of parentheses:

range [first, last) that are equal (first version) or in which pred(*iter, *(*iter+1)) is

p. 338: Example 13-1: insert "const" for operator bool()

operator bool() const { return sorted; }

p. 356: replace_copy_if: change Iter to InIter

OutIter replace_copy_if(InIter first, InIter last, OutIter result, Predicate pred,
                        const T& new_value);

p. 438: strtoul, end of first paragraph: delete the errant backtick (`):

If the third part is empty, *end` points to the termi-

p. 531: ignore(), first bullet item, change:

n characters have been read and discarded if n != numeric_limits<intstreamsize>::max()

p. 542 (middle): insert "&"

insert_iterator<Container>& operator++(int)

p. 543 (bottom):

const T* operator->() const
istream_iterator<T,charT,traits,Distance>& operator++(): Returns a pointer to the item that was read most recently from the stream.
istream_iterator<T,charT,traits,Distance>& operator++(int): Reads the next item from the stream using operator>>. The return value is *this.
istream_iterator<T,charT,traits,Distance> operator++(int): Reads the next item from the stream using operator>>. The return value is a copy of *this, made prior to reading from the stream..

p. 551, first paragraph after Figure 13-23. Change:

The following member functions of reverse_iterator refer to adapted as the data member that stores the base() iterator. The adapted member is ~~purely a convenience for the function descriptions and is not necessarily part of any real implementation of reverse_iterator~~.actually named current, and is a protected data member of reverse_iterator. (See what happens if you change the text after the technical editors have done their work.)

p. 551, last paragraph: change:

Saves a copy of ~~the current item (operator*())~~*this, decrements adapted, and returns the saved ~~item~~copy of *this.

p. 552, second item, change text paragraph:

Saves a copy of ~~the current item (operator*())~~*this, increments adapted, and returns the saved ~~item~~copy of *this.

p. 672, par. 3, line 3, change max_string to max_size:

length exceeds max_sizetring() throws length_error.

p. 672, last bullet item, change T to Y:

TYou call