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Patrice Roy's new book, C++ Memory Management, has made me more conscious of object lifetimes. C++ is stricter than C about lifetimes, and common, textbook memory management that's sound in C is less so in C++ -- more than I realized. The book also ...

In a recent, real world problem I needed to load a heterogeneous sequence of records from a buffer. Record layout is defined in a header before the sequence. Each field is numeric, with a unique name composed of non-empty alphanumeric period ...