Chapter Twelve. Digging into the Visual C++ Compiler
FOR A LITTLE while, I’m going to abandon compiler agnosticism and dig into some details of Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler. Actually, the opening discussion on destructors applies to C++ in general, and the layout of a COM object is part of the Win32 application binary interface, so it is applicable to all compilers and languages that support COM, not just Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler. But as we dig deeper, we get into details that are more and more compiler specific.
Do you know when your destructors run?
DESTRUCTORS ARE A magical part of C++. They are not invoked explicitly under normal circumstances; instead, the compiler inserts calls to the destructor at appropriate points in program ...
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