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Common C++ Pitfalls
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7/5/2000 5:50:04 PM |
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Blake Madden
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Intermediate |
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C, C++ (general) |
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Discusses some of the easy to fall into C++ pitfalls and ways to avoid them.
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 10/4/2000 7:21:45 AM: PhiLho
It is an interesting set of articles, some of them (switch, null) being also relevant for pure C.
However, I noted some typos, that you should correct as these articles are mainly aimed at beginners which possibly cannot see them:
Null terminator:
char Name[5] = {'J','o','h','n','0'};
Obviously, the last character should either be 0 or '\0'. Now, perhaps RTF eated the backslash...
Rogue array pointers:
First for, condition should be i == 5, not i = 5 (BTW, this is another pitfall you should point out!).
Second example:
const MAXARRAY = 20;
you should either keep 5 or update the comment below...
ASSERT vs. VERIFY:
Not a bug, but you main want to suppress the double
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