C++ Questions

• What are the major differences between C and C++?
  • What are the differences between new and malloc?
  • What is the difference between delete and delete[]?
  • What are the differences between a struct in C and in C++?
  • What are the advantages/disadvantages of using #define?
  • What are the advantages/disadvantages of using inline and const?
• What is the difference between a pointer and a reference?
  • When would you use a pointer? A reference?
  • What does it mean to take the address of a reference?
• What does it mean to declare a function or variable as static?
• What is the order of initalization for data?
• What is name mangling/name decoration?
  • What kind of problems does name mangling cause?
  • How do you work around them?
• What is a class?
  • What are the differences between a struct and a class in C++?
  • What is the difference between public, private, and protected access?
  • For class CFoo { }; what default methods will the compiler generate for you>?
  • How can you force the compiler to not generate them?
  • What is the purpose of a constructor? Destructor?
  • What is a constructor initializer list?
  • When must you use a constructor initializer list?
  • What is a:
    • Constructor?
    • Destructor?
    • Default constructor?
    • Copy constructor?
    • Conversion constructor?
  • What does it mean to declare a...
    • member function as virtual?
    • member function as static?
    • member function as static?
    • member variable as static?
    • destructor as static?
  • Can you explain the term "resource acquisition is initialization?"
  • What is a "pure virtual" member function?
  • What is the difference between public, private, and protected inheritance?
  • What is virtual inheritance?
  • What is placement new?
  • What is the difference between operator new and the new operator?
• What is exception handling?
  • Explain what happens when an exception is thrown in C++.
  • What happens if an exception is not caught?
  • What happens if an exception is throws from an object's constructor?
  • What happens if an exception is throws from an object's destructor?
  • What are the costs and benefits of using exceptions?
  • When would you choose to return an error code rather than throw an exception?
• What is a template?
• What is partial specialization or template specialization?
• How can you force instantiation of a template?
• What is an iterator?
• What is an algorithm (in terms of the STL/C++ standard library)?
• What is std::auto_ptr?
• What is wrong with this statement? std::auto_ptr ptr(new char[10]);
• It is possible to build a C++ compiler on top of a C compiler. How would you do this? (Note: I've only asked this question once; and yes, he understood that I was asking him how cfront was put together. We hired him.)

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