OT: ^ in VS2008 C++

[Markus Humm]

Hello,

some friend tries to use VS2008 express for something and wondered now
what this ^ is the form designer etc. placed everywhere. We knot the *
for pointer stuff, but the ^ is new to us and not documented in the book
he owns and cannot be found in the help either, at least not as ^ in the
index.

Any hints for me what this could mean? (I normally don't program in
C/C++ and in Delphi it would be the pointer dereferencing operator)

Greetings

Markus

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C++#Bitwise_operators

Bitwise exclusive OR.

Paul T.

 

[Markus Humm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C++#Bitwise_operators

Bitwise exclusive OR.

No I don't think so.
It's used directly after object references or in methods which have
objects as parameters. Unluckily I have no actual source code here to
show it.

Can it be something from the .NET corner or something stack vs. heap
allocation?

Greetings

Markus

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

If it's C++ and if you're targeting Windows CE with the project, it's either
1) bitwise exclusive OR, or 2) the class that the operator is being applied
to overrides that operator and does something else with it.

Paul T.

 

[mikemargerum]

Sounds like a managed C++ reference?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

And that's why I should use managed C++ every once in a while...

Paul T.

Sounds like a managed C++ reference?

 

[Markus Humm]

Sounds like a managed C++ reference?

It this the same as a normal C++ object reference (which would use * I
assume as non C++ developer) but for .NET (means garbage collected etc.
environment)?

Greetings

Markus