Expert C Programming

struck by the fact that they could easily have coded around the bug if they had invested a small amount of time in investigating ...

Dynamically Growing Your Arrays Write a main() routine to go with the above function, check the original storage array, and fill ...

The problem with program verifiers is that they cheat on toy problems in order to get results. —Anonymous Readers of the Usenet ...

(provided that *a and *b are defined, i.e. a != NULL, b != NULL). This leads to only two solutions (derived by beta reduction), ...

register or is a bitfield, since you can't take the address of a bitfield or a register. The algorithm doesn't work if a or b ar ...

OK, I confess. I didn't change anything in the proof. But how can anyone reviewing that complicated text be sure one way or the ...

Object-oriented programming is characterized by inheritance and dynamic binding. C++ supports inheritance through class derivati ...

Abstraction—Extracting Out the Essential Characteristics of a Thing Object-oriented programming starts with object-oriented desi ...

changing the user interface without affecting any users. Notice that many of the software attributes are "shoulds." OOP language ...

hardware instructions, like "floating-point multiply". The next development allowed programmers to group together various data t ...

Software Dogma The Key Idea: A Class A class is just a user-defined type with all the operations on it. A class is often impleme ...

later. I submitted a formal paper (document number X3J16/93-0121) to the C++ standardization committee, suggesting that all five ...

Compared with C, it seems you have to shout at the C++ compiler to invoke it. Compile, and run the a.out file. Congratulations—i ...

Write the Method Bodies Write similar bodies for slice() and juice() for the Fruit class. Copy the body of peel to start with. ...

private: int weight, calories_per_oz; } ; void Fruit::peel(){ printf("this ptr=%p", this); this->weight--; weight--;} Fruit a ...

class Fruit { public: peel(); slice(); juice(); Fruit(int i, int j); // constructor ~Fruit(); // destructor private: int weight, ...

The Key Idea: Inheritance Deriving one class from another such that all of the other's characteristics are automatically availab ...

Primates inherit all the characteristics of mammals (including the quality of having a spinal cord, which mammals inherited fro ...

How C++ Does Inheritance Inheritance takes place between two classes (and not between individual functions). An example of a bas ...

Multiple Inheritance—Deriving from Two or More Base Classes C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, ...