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std::auto_ptr best practices

Posted on May 21, 2007 by aaron.saarela

One of the frustrating aspects of programming in C++ is memory management. In Java this is, in large part, handled by the garbage collector. As long as you don’t keep references lying about that you don’t need, and the GC…

Returning CORBA object references

Posted on March 29, 2005 by aaron.saarela

The CORBA object semantics are really frustrating at times. They behave close enough to how C++ does things to make them familiar, but they differ enough to lull you into a false sense of familiarity. Your first attempt to return…