C++ Tips: Behind The Scenes


Table of Contents


Sample cfront output in C++ and C
Unix malloc behaviour
What methods the compiler automatically writes
Speed and size of C versus C++
Linker reports undefined __vtbl
Use inlining judiciously
What goes on in casting pointers?
Cfront generation of vtables
vtables and inheritance
warning on const float but not const int
referencing pointers after delete
the type of pointer-to-member-functions
padding, alignment, and linking
object layout details
null and pointer representations
C vs C++ perfromance-wise
linker efficiency
identifiers and linker efficiency

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