Memory Management

Explains why a class that provides its own class-specific operator new(), or operator new[](), should also provide corresponding class-specific versions of plain new, in-place new, and nothrow new.

Answers the question of how much memory the various standard containers use to store the same number of objects of the same type T.

This article provides an in-depth look at the "pure virtual function called" error message.

Andrei Alexandrescu discusses smart pointers, from their simplest aspects to their most complex ones and from the most obvious errors in implementing them to the subtlest ones--some of which also happen to be the most gruesome.