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Adapter pattern memory models

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Following on from the article on Adapter patterns (Read more here) I’ve decided to explore the memory models of each of these patterns.

We’ll start with the simple case of a UtilityProvider class being a simple class with no virtual methods. Then we’ll look at what happens when the UtilityProvider has virtual functions added.

To flesh out the memory models I’ve added (arbitrary) data to both the UtilityProvider class and its adapters.

These memory models are based on the IAR Embedded Workbench C++ […]

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Interface adaption, and private inheritance

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

A problem with code re-use

It’s a common situation in software development: you’ve acquired a class – either from a third-party source, or inherited from another project – that’s got some really useful features, but its interface doesn’t quite meet your immediate needs. Two typical scenarios are:

The interface is too big; you just want your clients to have a small subset of the facilities on offer.
The interface signatures don’t match what your client code needs (and you don’t want to – […]

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