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C++

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Torsten T. Will
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
1093 pages
33h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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11.2    Modules

Your task now is to sensibly divide the modules of your part of the program for your own project. For this, you need to answer the question, for example, “What belongs in main.obj, teil1.obj, and teil2.obj?” And along with that: “What belongs in the main.cpp, teil1.cpp, and teil2.cpp source code files?”

main.cpp should probably contain int main(). Instead of naming the file main.cpp, program.cpp is also a reasonable name if your program will later be called programm.exe.

Otherwise, you should break your project into parts based on functionalities. Each part goes into a separate set of *.cpp files. Each *.cpp file, in turn, is complemented by a similarly named *.hpp file. The exception is main.cpp, for which you normally do not ...

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