C Programming FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions - page 1
- FAQ 28.08 Can a Java-like Object class simplify containers in C?
- FAQ 28.09 What s the difference between a homogeneous and a heterogeneous container?
- FAQ 28.10 Is it a good idea to use a best of breed approach when selecting container classes?
- FAQ 28.11 Should all projects use C s standardized containers?
- FAQ 28.12 What are the C standardized container classes?
- FAQ 28.13 What are the best applications for the standardized C sequence container classes?
- FAQ 28.14 What are the best situations for the standardized C associative container classes?
- Part IV: Topics
- Chapter 29. Mixing Overloading with Inheritance
- FAQ 29.01 What is the difference between overloaded functions and overridden functions?
- FAQ 29.02 What is the hiding rule?
- FAQ 29.03 How should the hiding rule be handled?
- FAQ 29.04 What should a derived class do when it redefines some but not all of a set of overloaded member functions inherited from the base class?
- FAQ 29.05 Can virtual functions be overloaded?
- Chapter 30. The Big Three
- FAQ 30.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 30.02 What are the Big Three?
- FAQ 30.03 What happens when an object is destroyed that doesn t have an explicit destructor?
- FAQ 30.04 What happens if an object is copied but doesn t have an explicit copy constructor?
- FAQ 30.05 What happens when an object that doesn t have an explicit assignment operator is assigned?
- FAQ 30.06 What is the Law of the Big Three?
- FAQ 30.07 Which of the Big Three usually shows up first?
- FAQ 30.08 What is remote ownership?
- FAQ 30.09 How is remote ownership special?
- FAQ 30.10 What if a class owns a referent and doesn t have all of the Big Three?
- FAQ 30.11 Are there any C classes that help manage remote ownership?
- FAQ 30.12 Does auto_ptr enforce the Law of the Big Three and solve the problems associated with remote ownership?
- FAQ 30.13 Are there cases where one or two of the Big Three may be needed but not all three?
- FAQ 30.14 Are there any other circumstances that might explicitly warrant the Big Three?
- FAQ 30.15 Why does copying an object using memcpy() cause a program crash?
- FAQ 30.16 Why do programs with variable-length argument lists crash?
- FAQ 30.17 Why do programs that use realloc() to reallocate an array of objects crash?
- Chapter 31. Using Objects to Prevent Memory Leaks
- FAQ 31.01 When are memory leaks important?
- FAQ 31.02 What is the easiest way to avoid memory leaks?
- FAQ 31.03 What are the most important principles for resource management?
- FAQ 31.04 Should the object that manages a resource also perform operations that may throw exceptions?
- FAQ 31.05 Should an object manage two or more resources?
- FAQ 31.06 What if an object has a pointer to an allocation and one of the object s member functions delete s the allocation?
- FAQ 31.07 How should a pointer variable be handled after being passed to delete ?
- FAQ 31.08 What should be done with a pointer to an object that is allocated and deallocated in the same scope?
- FAQ 31.09 How easy is it to implement reference counting with pointer semantics?
- FAQ 31.10 Is reference counting with copy-on-write semantics hard to implement?
- FAQ 31.11 How can reference counting be implemented with copy-on-write semantics for a hierarchy of classes?
- Chapter 32. Wild Pointers and Other Devilish Errors
- FAQ 32.01 What is a wild pointer?
- FAQ 32.02 What happens to a program that has even one wild pointer?
- FAQ 32.03 What does the compiler mean by the warning Returning a reference to a local object ?
- FAQ 32.04 How should pointers across block boundaries be controlled?
- FAQ 32.05 Is the reference-versus-pointer issue influenced by whether or not the object is allocated from the heap?
- FAQ 32.06 When should C-style pointer casts be used?
- FAQ 32.07 Is it safe to bind a reference variable to a temporary object?
- FAQ 32.08 Should a parameter passed by const reference be returned by const reference?
- FAQ 32.09 Should template functions for things like min(x,y) or abs(x) return a const reference?
- FAQ 32.10 When is zero not necessarily zero?
- Chapter 33. High-Performance Software
- FAQ 33.01 Is bad performance a result of bad design or bad coding?
- FAQ 33.02 What are some techniques for improving performance?
- FAQ 33.03 What is an advantage of using pointers and references?
- FAQ 33.04 What is a disadvantage of lots of references and pointers?
- FAQ 33.05 How else can member objects improve performance over pointers?
- FAQ 33.06 Which is better, i or i ?
- FAQ 33.07 What is the performance difference between Fred x(5)
- FAQ 33.08 What kinds of applications should consider using final classes and final member functions?
- FAQ 33.09 What is a final class?
- FAQ 33.10 What is a final member function?
- FAQ 33.11 How can final classes and final member functions improve performance?
- FAQ 33.12 When should a nonfinal virtual function be invoked with a fully qualified name?
- FAQ 33.13 Should full qualification be used when calling another member function of the same class?
- FAQ 33.14 Do final classes and final member functions cause a lot of code duplication?
- FAQ 33.15 Why do some developers dislike final member functions and final classes?
- FAQ 33.16 Can a programming languagerather than just the compileraffect the performance of software?
- Chapter 34. COM and ActiveX
- FAQ 34.01 Who should read this chapter?
- FAQ 34.02 What is the Component Object Model?
- FAQ 34.03 What are ActiveX and OLE?
- FAQ 34.04 What does the name Component Object Model mean?
- FAQ 34.05 What is a binary object model ?
- FAQ 34.06 What are the key features of COM?
- FAQ 34.07 What are GUIDs?
