The Hacks of Life

A virtual base class is a class that is included only once in your derived class no matter how many base classes refer to it. How does this...

Now that we have described how multiple inheritance in CodeWarrior C++ works, we can look at how casting and type works in C++. We needed t...

In my previous post I described how single inheritance works with the CodeWarrior C++ compiler - by placing the superclass as the first item...

In my previous article I described the basic layout of a C++ object in Metrowerks CodeWarrior, with a pointer in the object to a static tabl...

I spent a few minutes dissecting the C++ internal runtime structure for objects within Metrowerks CodeWarrior. There's some internal gu...

I was going to argue that virtual base classes are logical for interfaces, because we really only need each interface once. E.g.: class IDe...

Usually I post here after concluding something, usually after a discussion. But this post is the part that comes first - groping with the u...