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Revised Jul 4, 2012

[4.30] What updates were made for the 04/03 release?

1 New FAQs:

• [4.30] What updates were made for the 04/03 release?
  (created)

13 Changed FAQs:

• [3.1] Is there a C++ FAQ Book in addition to this on-line C++ FAQ?
  (rewrote, added several bookstores, and updated the URL for the source code)
• [7.5] How does C++ help with the tradeoff of safety vs. usability?
  (clarified that it is data declared as static at file-scope that is deprecated)
• [9.3] Do inline functions improve performance?
  (rewrote the "can cause thrashing" bullet thanks to Zarius Tularial; also reworded throughout to strengthen the points)
• [16.19] What's another way to build a Matrix template?
  (added methods nrows() and ncols() thanks to Christopher Mackie and Paolo Copello; inserted std:: in front of vector a few times thanks to Francisco Osorio G)
• [20.8] What is a "virtual constructor"?
  (added a note that MS VC++ 7.0 handles covariant return types thanks to Paolo Copello)
• [23.11] How can I set up my class so it won't be inherited from?
  (added the paragraph that the virtual inheritance approach might increase sizeof(Leaf))
• [26.6] I'm sooooo confused. Would you please go over the rules about bytes, chars, and characters one more time?
  (reworded the fifth bullet (so it doesn't use "effect") thanks to Mal Morrow and Chuck Pahlmeyer)
• [26.7] What is a "POD type"?
  (fixed a misspelling (equialent → equivalent) thanks to Mal Morrow)
• [34.3] Is the storage for a std::vector<T> guaranteed to be contiguous?
  (fixed a couple of typos in the last two paragraphs thanks to Dean Stanton)
• [37.2] Where can I get a copy of "STL"?
  (fixed the URL for the SGI implementation thanks to Jeremy Bishop)
• [38.2] Where can I get more information on using MFC and Visual C++?
  (rewrote with updated URLs thanks to Paolo Copello)
• [39.8] What are the C++ scoping rules for for loops?
  (replaced the pithy one-liner at the very beginning and corrected another typo thanks to Mans Gunnarsson)
• [40.3] Are there any pretty-printers that reformat C++ source code?
  (fixed the URL for C++2LaTeX thanks to Vinay Kumar Nallamothu)