Standard Template Library (STL)

What is the Standard Template Library (STL)?

A library of container templates approved by the ANSI committee for inclusion in the standard C++ specification.

A programmer who then launches into a discussion of the generic programming model, iterators, allocators, algorithms, and such, has a higher than average understanding of the new technology that STL brings to C++ programming.


Describe run-time type identification.

The ability to determine at run time the type of an object by using the typeid operator or the dynamic_cast operator.


What problem does the namespace feature solve?

Multiple providers of libraries might use common global identifiers causing a name collision when an application tries to link with two or more such libraries. The namespace feature surrounds a library’s external declarations with a unique namespace that eliminates the potential for those collisions.
This solution assumes that two library vendors don’t use the same namespace identifier, of course.


Are there any new intrinsic (built-in) data types?


Yes. The ANSI committee added the bool intrinsic type and its true and false value keywords.

Will the following program execute?
void main()
{
void *vptr = (void *) malloc(sizeof(void));
vptr++;
}


Answer1

It will throw an error, as arithmetic operations cannot be performed on void pointers.


Answer2

It will not build as sizeof cannot be applied to void* ( error “Unknown size” )


Answer3

How can it execute if it won’t even compile? It needs to be int main, not void main. Also, cannot increment a void *.


Answer4

According to gcc compiler it won’t show any error, simply it executes. but in general we can’t do arthematic operation on void, and gives size of void as 1

Answer5

The program compiles in GNU C while giving a warning for “void main”. The program runs without a crash. sizeof(void) is “1? hence when vptr++, the address is incremented by 1.


Answer6

Regarding arguments about GCC, be aware that this is a C++ question, not C. So gcc will compile and execute, g++ cannot. g++ complains that the return type cannot be void and the argument of sizeof() cannot be void. It also reports that ISO C++ forbids incrementing a pointer of type ‘void*’.


Answer7

in C++
voidp.c: In function `int main()’:
voidp.c:4: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to a void type
voidp.c:4: error: `malloc’ undeclared (first use this function)
voidp.c:4: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
voidp.c:6: error: ISO C++ forbids incrementing a pointer of type `void*’
But in c, it work without problems