Chapter 18. Specialized Tools and Techniques

CONTENTS

Section 18.1 Optimizing Memory Allocation	754
Section 18.2 Run-Time Type Identification	772
Section 18.3 Pointer to Class Member	780
Section 18.4 Nested Classes	786
Section 18.5 Union: A Space-Saving Class	792
Section 18.6 Local Classes	796
Section 18.7 Inherently Nonportable Features	797
Chapter Summary	805
Defined Terms	805

The first four parts of this book discussed how to use those parts of C++ that are generally useful. Those features are likely to be used at some point by almost all C++ programmers. In addition, C++ defines some features that are more specialized. Many programmers will never (or only rarely) need to use these features presented in this chapter.