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Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ Frantisek Franek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

In contrast to the C-style cast, the static cast will allow the compiler to check that the pointer and pointee data types are compatible, which allows the programmer to catch this incorrect pointer assignment during compilation. Recently I did some programming and had to deal with text documents stored into C++ strings and C memory regions. While these garbage collection-based languages have been evolving, C++ has been developing along a different track. By Frantisek Franek Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Since this results in a 4-byte pointer pointing to 1 byte of allocated memory, writing to this pointer will either cause a run-time error or will overwrite some adjacent memory. December 25th, 2012 reviewer Leave a comment Go to comments. Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ : PDF eBook Download. But in all seriousness, C/C++ should be considered niche languages, not for general purpose programming – and I say that as somebody who's been writing C for more than 25 years. Smaller things run faster due to caching, and are also more . However, as a long-time C++ and C# programmer myself, I have to say that even though C++ is often the wrong choice, there are still many, many situations in which it's the only choice: 1) Cutting-edge 3D games. *p = 5; // run-time error: stack corruption. First, C++ is intrinsically stingy with memory (unlike Java objects, a C++ struct has no memory overhead if there are no virtual functions [modulo word alignment issues]). 2) Graphical and And for any application where you need explicit control over large amounts of memory – for example, if you're building an RDBMS – C#'s garbage-collected approach is a deal-breaker.