C++ subtleties

January 4, 2010 blog code

Calling delete this may or may not crash, depending on whether the object is created outside or inside heap The prefix and postfix operator++ function is differentiated by void argument (prefix) or a dummy int argument (postfix) The compiler constructs a vtable for an object gradually during the constructor of... [more]

Removing Universal Binary

January 2, 2010 blog system

In MacOS X, we now have universal binary to make program compatible with PPC and i386 architectures. But who’s still using PPC nowadays? To strip a UB into single-architecture binary to save hard disk space, issue: [more]