What is a constructor initializer list?

616

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What is partial specialization or template specialization?

555

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What does it mean to take the address of a reference?

517

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What are the costs and benefits of using exceptions?

537

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What is name mangling/name decoration?

507

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What is wrong with this statement? std::auto_ptr ptr(new char[10]);

529

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What is an algorithm (in terms of the STL/C++ standard library)?

606

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Explain what happens when an exception is thrown in C++.

536

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It is possible to build a C++ compiler on top of a C compiler. How would you do this?

541

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When would you choose to return an error code rather than throw an exception?

535

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What kind of problems does name mangling cause?

584

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How do you work around them?

582

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What are the advantages/disadvantages of using inline and const?

558

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What is the difference between public, private, and protected inheritance?

535

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What does it mean to declare a function or variable as static?

540

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