Table of Contents

Introduction

What is KAI C++?

How to Use This Manual

User's Guide Conventions

How You Can Help Yourself and Others

Getting Up and Running with KAI C++

SGI Users

KCC Codekey license

Precompiled Headers

Overview

Details

Automatic Precompiled Header Processing

Manual Precompiled Header Processing

Other Ways for Users to Control Precompiled Headers

Organizing Your Sources to Improve PCH Performance

Tutorial: How KAI C++ Improves Performance

Using Higher-Level Abstractions

KAI C++ Transformations

Lightweight Objects

Inlining

Branch Simplification

Constant Folding

Tutorial: Helping the KAI C++ Optimizer

Writing Optimizable Code

Inline Functions

Aliasing

Aliasing in FORTRAN vs. C++

Abstract Float/Pointer

Abstract Float Example

Restrict Keyword

Tutorial: Using Templates with KAI C++

Template Declaration vs. Definition

Automatic Template Instantiation

Explicit Inclusion

Implicit Inclusion

Ad Hoc Approach

Prelinker

Building Libraries that Depend on Automatic Instantiation

Shared Libraries

Archives

One Instantiation Per Object

Closing Libraries

Building Libraries that Do Not Depend on Automatic Instantiation

Structuring Code to Reduce Template Bloat

Sharing via Inheritance

Sharing via Global Functions

Template Features that are Deprecated or Removed

Guiding Declarations

Option --split Removed

Parallel Prelinking is Moot

Other Template Instantiation Modes

Template Instantiation Pragmas

Tutorial: Using Exception-Handling in KAI C++

Reference: Command Line Options

Command-line Options

Keywords

Pragmas

Debugging

Compiling for Debugging

Example

For GDB Users

Starting GDB

Accessing Qualified Names

Base Classes

For SGI Irix 5.3 DBX Users

Printing Data Members

Base Classes

New C++ Features

Namespaces

Compiling Pre-Namespace Codes

New Features for Templates

Template Friend Declarations

Default Arguments for Type Templates

Non-Type Template Parameters for Function Templates

Explicit Instantiation of Templates

Keyword typename

Member templates

ISO Syntax for Full Specialization

Partial Specialization of Class Templates

Partial Ordering of Function Templates

Farewell to Guiding Declarations

Explicit Specification of Function Template Arguments

New-Style Casts

Run-time Type Identification (RTTI)

Note for SGI Users

Types Bool and Wchar_t

New Features for Classes

Mutable

Definition of Nested Class OutSide Enclosing Scope

Static Data Member Declarations

Non-converting Constructors

Friend Definitions

Covariant Returns Types for Virtual Functions

Array New and Delete

Declarations in Tested Conditions

Scope of For-Loop Variable

Const and Volatile Qualifiers Retained on Rvalues

Linkage Specification is Part of Type

New Library Features

Templatized Streams

Namespace rel_ops

Traits for Characters

Traits for Iterators

Allocators for Containers

Template Class stack

Templatized complex

Templatized Conversions Between bitset and basic_string

Change in Template Class basic_istream

Changes in Template Class valarray

Frequently Asked Questions

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