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Notes about C++ Basic facilities Basic facilities Fundamental types i C++ Booleans Structs in C++ Declarations and definitions The structure of a declaration Declaring several names together Declarations as statements - declarations in conditions Constants The general notation of objects in C++ Lvalues C-style strings C++ style strings Strings - examples References Rules for references References - Examples Constant References References versus Pointers Parameter passing in C++ Value return Type conversion - Grand Overview Implicit type conversions Explicit type conversion Function Overloading Function Overloading - more detailed rules Function Overloading - Examples Vectors in C++ Vectors - examples The free store Input and output in C++ Overloaded operators and IO Standard streams Stream State Manipulators More manipulators Logical program organization More namespaces Physical program organization Example of program organization The standard library namespace Point Exercise - C++ versus C#

Illustration of free store.

"A C++ implementation does not guarantee the prescence of a 'garbage collector'" [Stoustrup page 128]