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Hi, When using Microsoft Visual Studio, building in release the code just hangs and fails to execute but with Debug it builds and runs to the end. And I don't see why there should be a difference. I did a shutdown then clean and a rebuild of solution but the …

There is probably a joke in the comment that I am missing but this post is going to give the design approaches to solving the problem posed by FirstPerson in his signature: find the last ten digits of x^x (x raised to the power of x) for all the positive …

Hi I have what at first seemed to be a very simpe problem: I have a Microsoft Package that requires me to use nmake to make a lib file. I am unfamiliar with make files as I use visio and XP. Now I had to move somethings due to restricted …

I have a std::string (char *, std::string::size_t ) constructor failing and I am not sure why. For my small test file there was no problem, but when using ifstream::read() with an unsigned int sz of 1Gb (1073741824) (I think that I used a pos_type 1st time) and the resulting char* …

I am having problems with the new operator() specifically within std::string I appear to have hit a memory limit in visual studio. Ideally I would like someone to help me find one of the following solutions: 1 - Can I access the memory in a very big file directly without …