Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned about smart pointers ─ the modern, safe way to handle dynamic memory. At the very end, I promised we’d look at something that sounds a little dizzying ─ pointers to pointers 😵💫 If you haven’t read the earlier posts in this series, please go through them […]
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned dynamic memory allocation ─ how new grabs memory from the heap and delete gives it back. We also met two scary dangers ─ the memory leak (forgetting to delete) and the dangling pointer (using memory after delete). At the very end, we got a little taste
Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned the fascinating relationship between pointers and functions ─ how a function has an address, and how we can pass behavior around like data. If you haven’t read the earlier posts in this series, please go through them first ─ today everything we’ve learned about pointers finally
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned the deep connection between pointers and strings ─ how a C-style string is really just a char array, and how a pointer can walk through it character by character. If you haven’t read the earlier posts in this series, please go through them first ─ today
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned the deep and beautiful relationship between pointers and arrays. We saw that an array name is really an address, that marks[i] is just *(marks + i), and that arrays decay into pointers all the time. If you haven’t read the earlier posts in this series, please
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned about pass by value and pass by reference. We also briefly touched pointer arithmetic along the way. If you haven’t read the earlier posts in this series, please go through them first, because today we are going to combine almost everything we have learned so far.
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we learned the very basics of pointers ─ the address-of operator, the dereference operator, and the asterisk operator. If you haven’t read that one yet, go through it first because we will be using all of those concepts here. Today we will talk about something that confuses a
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Hi everyone In this tutorial we will talk about Bitset So, What is Bitset actually? Bitset is a container of C++ STL that stores a fixed-size sequence of bits — just 0s and 1s. Think of it as an array of bools, but far more compact and with a whole toolbox of bit-level operations built
Hi everyone In this tutorial we will talk about Forward List So, What is Forward List actually? Forward List is a sequence container of C++ STL that stores its elements in a singly linked list. Each element (node) holds its value and a single pointer to the next node — and that is the whole
Hi everyone In this tutorial we will talk about Flat Multiset So, What is Flat Multiset actually? Flat Multiset is an associative container of C++ STL that stores elements as keys — there are no associated values (that is the job of flat map and flat multimap). It is basically a combination of two containers