Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++

✍ Scribed by Frantisek Franek

• Book ID: 127445343
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780521520430

✦ Synopsis

Franek (McMaster U.) reminds us that programs are not executed in a vacuum but in a computer memory, a simple fact that changes the way must programmers and students must think about the semantics of the programming language. He begins by describing the transformation of a source file to an executable module, the work of variables as "data containers," the dynamic allocation and de-allocation of memory, functions and function calls, one-dimensional arrays and strings, multi-dimensional arrays, classes and objects, linked data structures, leaks and their debugging, and programs in execution expressed as processes and threads. He includes a glossary and a web site to obtain the lengthier examples of code.