The
C
+ +
Programming
Language
Third Edition
Bjarne Stroustrup
AT&T Labs
Murray Hill, New Jersey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stroustrup, Bjarne
The C
++
Programming Language / Bjarne Stroustrup. — 3rd. ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-201-88954-4
1. C
++
(Computer Programming Language) I. Title
QA76.73.C153S77 1997 97-20239
005.13’3—dc21 CIP
Copyright © 1997 by AT&T
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the
publisher. Printed in the United States of America.
This book was typeset in Times and Courier by the author.
ISBN 0-201-88954-4
Printed on recycled paper
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First printing, June 1997
Contents
Contents iii
Preface v
Preface to Second Edition vii
Preface to First Edition ix
Introductory Material 1
1 Notes to the Reader ..................................................................... 3
2 A Tour of C
++
............................................................................. 21
3 A Tour of the Standard Library .................................................. 45
Part I: Basic Facilities 67
4 Types and Declarations ............................................................... 69
5 Pointers, Arrays, and Structures .................................................. 87
6 Expressions and Statements ........................................................ 107
7 Functions ..................................................................................... 143
8 Namespaces and Exceptions ....................................................... 165
9 Source Files and Programs .......................................................... 197
The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup. Copyright ©1997 by AT&T.
Published by Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. ISBN 0-201-88954-4. All rights reserved.
iv Contents
Part II: Abstraction Mechanisms 221
10 Classes ........................................................................................ 223
11 Operator Overloading ................................................................. 261
12 Derived Classes ........................................................................... 301
13 Templates .................................................................................... 327
14 Exception Handling .................................................................... 355
15 Class Hierarchies ........................................................................ 389
Part III: The Standard Library 427
16 Library Organization and Containers .......................................... 429
17 Standard Containers .................................................................... 461
18 Algorithms and Function Objects ............................................... 507
19 Iterators and Allocators ............................................................... 549
20 Strings ......................................................................................... 579
21 Streams ........................................................................................ 605
22 Numerics ..................................................................................... 657
Part IV: Design Using C
++
689
23 Development and Design ............................................................ 691
24 Design and Programming ........................................................... 723
25 Roles of Classes .......................................................................... 765
Appendices 791
A The C
++
Grammar ...................................................................... 793
B Compatibility .............................................................................. 815
C Technicalities .............................................................................. 827
Index 869
The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup. Copyright ©1997 by AT&T.
Published by Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. ISBN 0-201-88954-4. All rights reserved.
