Low-Level Programming
The “low level” in low-level programming refers to the level of abstraction, not to the quality of the programming. Low level means closer to the bits and bytes of computer hardware and machine language. Low-level programming is important for embedded programming and for increasing the efficiency of some operations. C++11 offers some aids to those who do low-level programming.
One change is relaxing the constraints on what qualifies as “Plain Old Data,” or POD. In C++98, a POD is a scalar type (a one-value type, such as int or double) or an old-fashioned structure with no constructors, base classes, private data, virtual functions, and so on. The idea was that a POD is something for which it’s safe to make a byte-by-byte ...
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