General-purpose C++ Utilities

Using the Library

To use HIPP’s CNTL module, include the header <hippcntl.h>. A minimal cpp source file is like:

// cntl-minimal-example.cpp
#include <hippcntl.h>

using namespace HIPP;
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char const *argv[]) {
    // use the library
    return 0;
}

Note that we adopt the above namespace declarations for clarity throughout this tutorial.

To generate executables, just compile and link the libraries. Then run it

g++ -std=c++17 cntl-minimal-example.cpp -lhippcntl
./a.out

The details of the module components are covered by the following sub-sections:

• Basic Stream Manipulation
  • Printing Anything With the Pretty Stream
  • C-style Formatted Output
  • String Factories
• Exception Handling
  • Throwing and Catching Exceptions
  • Catching Exceptions by their Application or Category
• Logging
  • Basic Logging
  • Controlling the Priority Level
• Timing
  • The Ticker Class
• Type Concept and Traits