Some c++ faqs

• 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 baller and a reference?
• When would you use a baller? 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]);