Ars Technica

C++ member function pointers: defined in base class, applied to derived class?

I'm trying to create a "Controllable" interface, that allows a "Controller" object to manipulate the value of generic Controllable objects' variables. Since the Controllable objects are typically ...
Hackaday

Directly Executing Chunks Of Memory: Function Pointers In C

In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...
Ars Technica

C++: Accessing member functions through an iterator?

I'm trying to use an iterator of a vector of pointers to objects of a class I've written, to proceed through each object in the vector and call a member function of that object. It's not working. I ...
Visual Studio Magazine

C++ Pointers Get Smart

Recent announcements made by some big players in the industry about C++ enablement -- like Google's Android NDK, the Apple-sponsored Clang compiler or the inclusion of C++ as a first-class citizen in ...
Embedded

Best practices to safely navigate pointers in C/C++

As someone who has spent over two decades in the embedded systems industry, I’ve seen the vast evolution of technology—from 8-bit microcontrollers to today’s sophisticated, multicore systems. Yet, one ...