SatView: Pointer Perfect, Part 2: Construction / Destruction

In this second article in our series about pointers, J. Nakamura explains malloc and free, and new and delete. He also examines the this pointer and discusses the difference between copying pointers and copying memory (and the hazards of shallow vs. deep copying). Then he points out the potential problems when crossing DLL boundaries, and finally takes us into the exotic(?) world of pointer pointers.


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