In This January Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY

• Destructors Considered Harmful
  By Andrew Koenig
C++ destructors have their own hazards, with nature and causes that are analogous to those of the goto statement. This article argues that programmers should seriously consider restricting the use of destructors to data structures that are intended to avoid those hazards.


• Cross-Platform Development with Eclipse CDT
  By Ben Dupont
Create one Eclipse project that can be used to compile on Windows using the Visual Studio compiler or on Linux using GCC, and share the source code via SVN.


• From the Vault: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Types for C++
  By Kurt Guntheroth
This handy entry from our archives presents three fixed-point types, coded as C++ template classes, which are intended as drop-in replacements for int or double.



EDITORIAL

By Andrew Binstock


• Letters
  By you
Readers discuss surveys, commenting, ARM devices and more.


• Links
  
Snapshots of the most interesting articles on drdobbs.com including Automating iOS Application Testing and Dialectics and Compiler Warnings.

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