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Thinking in C++ Revision: 10/16/2007 8:26:20 PMCopyright Professor Zachary Wartell, University of North CarolinaAll Rights Reserved C++ System Programming Conceptual Stumbling Blocks file organization – separate code implementation and class/type definitions variables – do variables name an object or a reference to an object? pointers – addresses, address arithmetic, arrays, address for function parameter, function pointer explicit dynamic memory allocation and deallocation constructors/destructors C++ reference C++ polymorphism memory errors – C++ says “Yes, Sir!” C++ Files source code files (.cpp, etc.) – function and member function implementation and global variable definitions header files (.h or no extension) – data types, function prototypes, global variable declarations used by multiple source code files Example Example Java vs C++ Variables variables of built-in type versus class type process address space level of indirection allocation and operator= operator== pass-by value C++ and Java Variables C++ class variables and built-in type variables are placeholders for the memory address of the class or built-in objects Java: built-in variable is placeholder for memory address of built-in object but class variable is placeholder for memory address of reference to class object Review: Process Address Space Level of Indirection – instance allocation and = Level of Indirection – == Level of Indirection – pass by value Pointers What are they? Pointer arithmetic Dynamic allocation: new, delete Relation to C++ arrays (non-dynamic allocation) Dynamic allocation - arrays: new[], delete[] Pointers and pass-by-value NULL Pointer Type stores an address of another object syntax declaration  typename *variableName; address-of operator: pointer dereference operator: *varName (*varName).memberName varName-memberName Pointer Type - = and == Dynamic allocation/deallocation: new and delete C++ Pointers – Address is accessible In other languagespoi