[ale] Recent RTFM'ing and Questions and Answers

[Joseph A Knapka]

Mark Hurley wrote:
> 
> Great...and as Stephen points out...2AM ranting is allowed. ;)
> 
> Its great to see everyone has strong opinions on this.  But I'm sure a
> lot of people in here can stump even the best of us.
> 
> BTW...I'm going to ask a question now... ;)
> 
> Does anyone have a good link pointing to a great explanation of memory
> mgt. in C++? I'm not looking for HOWTO's on programming, that concept
> is pretty set with me.
> 
> I'm looking more on the objects on the heap, and derived types
> occupying bytes...etc. Objects being passed by by their super type,
> yet able to explain how down casting is handled in the memory scope of
> things. Maybe even a nice picture or two.

You've read the comp.lang.c++ FAQ, yes? (<URL: http://www.faqs.org/>
and navigate to newsgroups->comp->comp.lang.c++)

Admittedly, that's a large document that's more or less
concerned with memory management issues in a great many
places. I know of no document that specifically deals
with memory management in C++ as a topic. The
best available pieces of writing on C++ in general
are Scott Meyers' "Effective C++" books, which cover
memory issues very clearly.

Personally, I think if you can explain why virtual
destructors are necessary, you probably have a
reasonable understanding of C++ memory management.

Cheers,

-- Joe
# "You know how many remote castles there are along the
#  gorges? You can't MOVE for remote castles!" - Lu Tze re. Uberwald
# (Obsolete) Linux MM docs:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/linux-mm/vmoutline.html

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