Questions and Answers

Columns in The C/C++ Users Journal, 1995-1998

• Surprising Promotion Effects (June, 1995)
• A Pitfall Inherited from C (July, 1995)
• Suicidal Classes are Risky Business (August, 1995)
• Nonrandom rand() Problems (September, 1995)
• Dual-Use Keywords Create Confusion (October, 1995)
• More on rand() (November, 1995)
• Getting rid of goto (December, 1995)
• Creating Your Own Manipulator (January, 1996)
• In Undefined Territory (February, 1996)
• Availability vs. Membership (March, 1996)
• Parentheses Won't Fix Everything (April, 1996)
• Even More on rand() (May, 1996)
• Overloaded Conversion Operators (June, 1996)
• The Value of Code Walks (July, 1996)
• What About realloc()? (August, 1996)
• Little-Known Effects of Defining Constructors (September, 1996)
• Kicking the Macro Habit (October, 1996)
• Traits to the Rescue (November, 1996)
• Using Conversion Operators (December, 1996)
• Using the enum Hack in C (January, 1997)
• Resolving Types Inside Templates (February, 1997)
• Wrapping the Prickly Pragma (March, 1997)
• What Happens to Unfreed Memory? (April, 1997)
• Not All operator='s are Equal (May, 1997)
• Hiding Passwords in C (July, 1997)
• Handling Variable-Size Objects (August, 1997)
• Using Templates in DLLs (September, 1997)
• Post-Exception Promises and Uncertainties (October, 1997)
• Why No Wide-Char File Names? (November, 1997)
• The Ins & Outs of Variable Argument Lists (December, 1997)
• The Complex Evolution of <string> (January, 1998)
• C++ Standard Approved (February, 1998)
• Understanding Access Restrictions (March, 1998)
• Creating Variable-size structs (April, 1998)
• Use Caution with Temporary Objects (May, 1998)
• The Danger of Undeclared Functions (June, 1998)
• Assumptions to Avoid Concerning Memory (July, 1998)
• Every Template Needs a friend (Now and Then) (August, 1998)
• Implementing Dynamic Function Calls (September, 1998)
• Portability, Promotion, and Other Concerns (October, 1998)
• Catching Exceptions, and Flak, from Readers (November, 1998)