CPP_Module_06

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CPP Module 06: C++ casts

This module covers different types of C++ casts, allowing explicit type conversions.

Exercises

• Exercise 00: Conversion of scalar types
  • This exercise requires creating a ScalarConverter class that contains only one static method named convert. This method takes a string representation of a C++ literal and outputs its value in char, int, float, and double types. It must handle pseudo-literals like -inff, +inff, nanf, inf, +inf, and nan. Informative messages should be printed if a conversion to char is not displayable. The class must not be instantiable.
• Exercise 01: Serialization
  • This exercise involves implementing functions to serialize and deserialize a Data structure to and from an unsigned integer type using reinterpret_cast.
• Exercise 02: Identify real type
  • This exercise focuses on creating a Base class with a public virtual destructor and three empty classes (A, B, C) that publicly inherit from Base. It requires implementing generate (randomly instantiates A, B, or C and returns as a Base pointer) and identify functions (one taking a Base* and one taking a Base&) to dynamically print the actual type of the object ("A", "B", or "C") using dynamic_cast.

General Rules

• Code is compiled with c++ and flags -Wall -Wextra -Werror.
• Code must compile with the -std=c++98 flag.
• Class names are in UpperCamelCase.
• Output messages end with a newline character.
• The C++ standard library is allowed, but external libraries and certain C functions (printf(), *alloc(), free()) are forbidden.
• using namespace <ns_name> and friend keywords are forbidden unless explicitly stated.
• STL (containers, algorithms) is forbidden in this module.
• Type conversion must be handled using a specific type of casting for each exercise.

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