CHAPTER 1: Memory Management in different platforms.
CHAPTER GOAL: This chapter has introductory lessons about memory management when using different platforms and the C++ programming language (NATIVE), C++/CLI projection (CLR), C++/CX projection (WinRT), C++/WinRT (WinRT), COM and IDL, and when using Windows API 's such as Heap Management.
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1. Acronym's.
2. Pointers.
3. References.
4. Microsoft Windows operating system.
a. Microsoft Windows 10.
b. Microsoft Windows API.
c. Paging.
d. Virtual Memory.
e. Microsoft Windows Heap Management.
f. Microsoft Windows Virtual functions.
g. User-Mode.
h. Kernel-mode.
i. Flat memory model.
j. Segment memory model.
k. Intel IA-32 architecture.
l. Intel 64 (x64) architecture.
m. Processes.
n. Threads.
o. Memory Management.
5. CLR - Common Language Runtime
a. Managed Environment.
b. .NET Core 3.
c. .NET Framework.
d. .NET 5.
e. C#.
f. C++/CLI projection.
g. CIL - Common Intermediate Language.
h. MSIL - Microsoft Intermediate Language.
i. ECMA - 335 - CLI - Common Language Infrastructure.
j. ECMA - 372 - C++/CLI projection.
k. ECMA - 334 - C# programming language.
l. Memory Management.
6. WinRT - Windows Runtime / UWP - Universal Windows Platform
a. Component-based programming.
b. C++/CX projection.
c. Support for .NET Platform.
d. C++/WinRT.
e. OOP - Object Oriented Programming.
f. C++ programming language support.
g. Assembly programming language support.
h. Memory Management.
7. COM Programming
a. Introduction.
b. IDL - Interface Definition Language.
c. MIDL.
d. Fundamental Tools.
e. Microsoft Windows Registry.
f. Memory Management.
CHAPTER 2: Memory Management with C++ programming language.
CHAPTER GOAL: This chapter has introductory lessons about memory management using the C++ programming language constructions, standard and Microsoft-specific.
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8. Acronym's.
9. Pointers
a. Using const qualifier.
b. Using constexpr qualifier.
c. Using address-of & operator, sizeof operator, _countof macro, and _msize() function.
10. Understanding Alignment.
11. Memory Management using Microsoft UCRT functions.
12. Modern C++ programming - Using Smart Pointers.
a. Programming using
unique_ptr data type smart pointer.
b. Programming using shared_ptr data type smart pointer and make_shared() function.
c. Programming using weak_ptr and shared_ptr data types smart pointers.
13. Operator Overloading.
a. Built-in memory management operators.
14. Casting operators.
a. reinterpret_cast operator.
b. static_cast operator.
15. Lambda Expressions.
16. Templates.
17. Conclusions.
1. Do's and Don'ts.
CHAPTER 3: About concept and implementation of Reference on C++ programming language / Windows API (NATIVE), C++/CLI projection (CLR), and C++/CX projection (WinRT).
CHAPTER GOAL: This chapter has introductory lessons about the concept and implementation of References with C++ programming language, C++/CLI projection, and C++/CX projection memory management on the Intel x86 (32-bit) and Intel 64-x64 (64-bit) hardware architecture.
1. Acronym's.
2. References.
a. Lvalue reference &.
b. Rvalue reference &.
c. Xvalue (Universal) reference.
d. Using address-of & operator.
e. Copy constructor (OOP).
3. Working with Natural Alignment.
a. __alignof operator (Microsoft-specific).
b. alignof operator (since C++11).
c. alignas specifier (since C++11).
4. Reference concept when using C++/CLI projection (CLR).
5. Reference concept when using C++/CX projection (WinRT).
6. Reference concept when using C++/WinRT (WinRT).
7. Reference concept when using IDL and COM programming.
8. Details about casting operators.
a. reinterpret_cast operator.
b. const_cast operator.
c. static_cast operator.
d. dynamic_cast operator.
9. More details about programming Lambda Expressions and Templates.
10. Conclusions.
11. Do's and Don'ts.
CHAPTER 4: About Stack and Heap on Memory Management
CHAPTER GOAL: This chapter has introductory lessons about stack and heap memory management on the Intel x86 (32-bit) and Intel 64-x64 (64-bit) hardware architecture.
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SUB - TOPICS:
1. Acronym's.
2. Intel Architectures
1. IA-32 architecture.
2. Intel 64 architecture.
2. IA-32 - Processor operation modes
1. Protected mode.
2. Read-address mode.
3. Management mode.
3. Intel 64 - Processor operation modes
1. Compatibility mode.
2. 64-bit mode.
4. Address space.
1. Linear Address Space.
2. Segmented Address Space.
5. Program Execution Registers.
1. General-purpose registers.
2. Segment registers.
6. Stack.
7. Alignment.
8. Memory Management and Control Registers.
9. Memory Models - IA-32 architecture
1. Flat memory model.
2. Segmented memory model.
10. Memory Model for 64-bit mode.
11. Paging mechanism.
12. Virtual Memory.
13. About Instruction Pointer.
14. Learning about operation of segmented memory model.
1. Operand size.
2. Address size.
3. Operand addressing.
4. Registers.
5. Working with offset (displacement, index, size, scale factor).
3. Conclusion.
1. Do's and Don'ts.
CHAPTER 5: Memory Management using Microsoft Windows APIs.
CHAPTER GOAL: This chapter has introductory lessons about concepts and practical uses of Memory Management APIs. Covers general functions and data structures such as SecureZeroMemory() and MEMORYSTATUSEX, and for the Heap Memory Management API functions and data structures, such as HeapAlloc(), HeapFree(), and HeapSize() functions.
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4. Acronyms.
5. Overview
1. The Virtual Address Space (VAS).
2. Process and Thread.
3. The Working Set.
4. About Paging Mechanism.
2. Memory Allocation and Release.
3. Heaps.
4. Process Heap.
5. Using Memory Heap Functions.
6. Memory Performance Information.
6. Conclusions.
1. Do's and Don'ts.
