Table of Contents

Object Lessons.


Layout Costs for Adding Encapsulation.


The C++ Object Model.


A Keyword Distinction.


An Object Distinction.


The Semantics of Constructors.


Default Constructor Construction.


Copy Constructor Construction.


Program Transformation Semantics.


Member Initialization List.


The Semantics of Data.


The Binding of a Data Member.


Data Member Layout.


Access of a Data Member.


Inheritance and the Data Member.


Object Member Efficiency.


Pointer to Data Members.


The Semantics of Function.


Varieties of Member Invocation.


Virtual Member Functions.


Function Efficiency.


Pointer-to-Member Functions.


Inline Functions.


Semantics of Construction, Destruction, and Copy.


Object Construction without Inheritance.


Object Construction under Inheritance.


Object Copy Semantics.


Object Efficiency.


Semantics of Destruction.


Runtime Semantics.


Object Construction and Destruction.


Operators new and delete.


Temporary Objects.


On the Cusp of the Object Model.


Templates.


Exception Handling.


Runtime Type Identification.


Efficient, but Inflexible.


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About the Author

Stanley B. Lippman is Architect with the Visual C++ development team at Microsoft. Previously, he served as a Distinguished Consultant at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL). Stan spent more than twelve years at Bell Laboratories, where he worked with Bjarne Stroustrup on the original C++ implementation and the Foundation research project. After Bell Laboratories, Stan worked at Disney Feature Animation, originally as principal software engineer, then as software technical director on Fantasia 2000.

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