Tag Archives: C++

More tr1: Static Arrays

Posted on 7 February 2010 by Bryan St. Amour

One of the old throwbacks to C in C++ is the notion of the “C-style array”: essentially a block of contiguous memory that you allocate either statically, or dynamically with malloc/free or new/delete. These structures were used in a time … Continue reading →

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Shared pointers, and why you should use them

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Bryan St. Amour

NOTE: The ideas expressed below are in part based on the book Effective C++ by Scott Myers. He uses auto_ptr in his example, but essentially the lesson is the same. Let’s face it: pointers are dangerous. If you allocate something, … Continue reading →

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