View Larger Image	Stanley B. Lippman Addison-Wesley, Paperback, Published May 1996, 280 pages, ISBN 0201834545
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Inside the C++ Object Model focuses on the underlying mechanisms that support object-oriented programming within C++: constructor semantics, temporary generation, support for encapsulation, inheritance, and "the virtuals"--virtual functions and virtual inheritance. This book shows how your understanding the underlying implementation models can help you code more efficiently and with greater confidence. Lippman dispells the misinformation and myths about the overhead and complexity associated with C++, while pointing out areas in which costs and trade offs, sometimes hidden, do exist. He then explains how the various implementation models arose, points out areas in which they are likely to evolve, and why they are what they are. He covers the semantic implications of the C++ object model and how that model affects your programs.

Highlights

• Explores the program behavior implicit in the C++ Object Model's support of object-oriented programming.
• Explains the basic implementation of the object-oriented features and the trade offs implicit in those features.
• Examines the impact on performance in terms of program transformation.
• Provides abundant program examples, diagrams, and performance measurements to relate object-oriented concepts to the underlying object model.

If you are a C++ programmer who desires a fuller understanding of what is going on "under the hood," then Inside the C++ Object Model is for you!

Object Lessons

Layout Costs for Adding Encapsulation

The C++ Object Model

A Keyword Distinction

An Object Distinction

The Semantics of Constructors

Default Constructor Construction

Copy Constructor Construction

Program Transformation Semantics

Member Initialization List

The Semantics of Data

The Binding of a Data Member

Data Member Layout

Access of a Data Member

Inheritance and the Data Member

Object Member Efficiency

Pointer to Data Members

The Semantics of Function

Varieties of Member Invocation

Virtual Member Functions

Function Efficiency

Pointer-to-Member Functions

Inline Functions

Semantics of Construction, Destruction, and Copy

Object Construction without Inheritance

Object Construction under Inheritance

Object Copy Semantics

Object Efficiency

Semantics of Destruction

Runtime Semantics

Object Construction and Destruction

Operators new and delete

Temporary Objects

On the Cusp of the Object Model

Templates

Exception Handling

Runtime Type Identification

Efficient, but Inflexible

Index

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Jul 27, 1999     Sridhar Villapakkam from MA
A terrific illustration of the C++ OOP paradigm
This book clearly indicates how the object oriented model of C++ works. Stan does a great job of illustrating how the C++ approach to polymorphism works. He discusses object slicing, non trivial default constructors, member wise initialization and other matters in the clearest fashion there is. I am an experienced C++ programmer and I must say I never did have the patience to read Stan's primer, but this book is cleverly written, elucidated and well worth the time spent on it. A great "under the hood" look at C++.

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