The Hacks of Life

I discovered WinDbg about a year ago and have found it to be the most powerful and complete debugger available for Windows PCs. Unfortunatel...

First, I should say that the point of my post on the cost of virtual methods in C++ is absolutely not that virtual methods are too expensi...

In my last post I covered dynamic casts and ambiguous base classes. This will be my last post on C++ object memory layout: the cost of usi...

I picked the wrong side...I've done a lot of work on PPC hardware, I think in Big Endian, and I can read PPC assembly. With Apple's...

Continuing with our discussion of how C++ objects are implemented in CodeWarrior, let's look at dynamic casts when an ambiguous base cla...

The Visual Studio compiler automatically assigns default values to certain types of variables depending on how they were declared (stack bas...

An ambiguous base class is a base class that is included in a derived class twice. Because you can't just derive from a class twice, th...