Author Archives: Drago Ružman

If an object gets deallocated too early, other objects still might have references to it and accessing it will lead to crash. Enabling Zombie objects will prevent crashes because objects are never actually deallocated and we’ll get an exception if we try to access such an object. But figuring out which object is causing trouble is just smaller part of the job. We need to find out where is the extra release (or missing retain) that is causing troubles. Read more

C++0x specification is finally approved by ISO and the latest compilers now support most of the specification without too many bugs. One of many new features introduced is support for lambda expressions. Lambda expressions are anonymous functions that maintain state and can access variables from the enclosing scope. Well known and often used in scripting languages, they were not available in C++ until now. Read more