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If you are working at a huge software project, it’s important to always write a documentation. This is important cause
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Types Type Area Risk static_cast – Converts fundamental types– Non-const to const– Down-casts (dangerous) Medium dynamic_cast – Down- and side-casts
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Problem The following code shows the problem of a cyclic reference with shared pointers. When leaving the main function the
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The “C++ standard library” isn’t defining implementation details of the data structures, it just defines their behavior. The libstdc++ is
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Especially in older C++ programms it was very common to work with a lot of raw pointer (legacy pointer). That
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