Software Architect Questions

SNOBOL is a high-level computer programming language used especially in manipulating textual data. It is mainly used for string operations and was developed between 1962 and 1967.

Most of the times compilers will do optimization to the code to speed up the program. For example in the below code,

int k = 15;
while( k == 15)

{
// Do something
}

compiler may think that value of 'k' is not getting changed in the program and replace it with 'while(true)', which will result in an infinite loop. In actual scenario, the value of 'k' may be getting updated from outside of the program.

Volatile keyword is used to tell compiler that the variable declared using 'volatile' may be used from outside the current scope, so that compiler won't apply any optimization. This matters only in case of multi-threaded applications.

In the above example if variable 'k' was declared using volatile, compiler will not optimize it. In shot, value of the volatile variables will be read from the memory location directly.

:: is the scope resolution operator

This is a common error while compiling C program in Linux. This error occurs when you are using pthread_create function to create threads in your programs.

To fix this problem ensure following points:
Include header file pthread.h in your program.
Add –lpthread linker flag with compilation command.
1- Include Header file
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
...
...
2- Compile command
gcc main.c -o main -lpthread

An inline function is a function that is expanded inline when invoked.ie. the compiler replaces the function call with the corresponding function code. An inline function is a function that is expanded in line when it is invoked. That is the compiler replaces the function call with the corresponding function code (similar to macro)

Destructor is a special member function of a class, which is invoked automatically whenever an object goes out of the scope. It has the same name as its class with a tilde character prefixed.