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Lecture 11, Thu 02/13

Makefiles, C++ Memory model - heap vs. stack

Premlimaries to Makefiles

• Basics of code compilation in C++ (review)
• Makefiles (used to automate compilation of medium to large projects)consisting of many files
• We will start by using a makefile to compile just a single program
• Extend to the case where your program is split between multiple files
• Understand what each of the following are and how they are used in program compilation
• Header file (.h)
• Source file (.cpp)
• Object file (.o)
• Executable
• Makefile
• Compile-time errors
• Link-time errors

Automating compilation using makefiles

• read about Makefile
• Compile-time errors
• Linker errors
• Header guards
• Refer to Professor Wang’s detailed notes on makefiles: https://ucsb-cs32.github.io/f19/lectures/lect01/

C++ Memory Model: Heap vs. stack

• Dynamic memory allocation: new and delete
• Stack vs. heap