Re: Interview question

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
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Date:
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:12:46 GMT
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On 2007-04-30 08:37, Digital Puer wrote:

On Apr 27, 9:07 am, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Noah Roberts wrote:

How would you answer this question?

"Describe the structure of a class."

I was stumped, quite frankly.


Did you ask what they mean by 'a class'? Perhaps it was the
memory layout of an instance they were interested in or perhaps
it was the syntactical form of 'a class definition'... You can
spin this in any direction showing off the knowledge of the
virtual inheritance and its implementation, virtual function
pointer table, the fact that the layout is only guaranteed
between access specifiers, the fact that member functions don't
take up space in the instance (beyond the first virtual function),
and so on.


What's a good source for this kind of low-level informaton
about c++? A book or URL would be great.


I'm not quite sure what you mean with low-level since it's not clear
what the question is really about, however The C++ Porgramming Language
and The Design and Evolution of C++ (both by Bjarne Stroustrup) will
provide you with lots of information.

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