Advanced Programming I Lecture Notes

18 January 2007 • C++ Review

Mostly straightforward. The two complications of interest to us in this class are

• Void pointers: The variable on the left-hand side of a pointer assignment may hold values of type void *, in which case the pointer value on the right-hand side may have any pointer type.

• Class-instance pointers: If the right-hand side pointer value has type C *, where C is a class, then the left-hand side variable can be of type C' *, where C' is the class C or any of its ancestors.

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