Tracker class for object-oriented programming environments

Details Tracker class for object-oriented programming environments Tracker class for object-oriented programming environments

1996-05-31

1999-08-17

Trammell, James P.

395703, G06F 945

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059406160

ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing object tracking capabilities in object-oriented programming environments using a tracker class and associated functions, and a memory for storing tracker objects. The tracker class, once defined as a base class of any target class that needs the tracking capability, automatically tracks all the objects instantiated from the target class in a linked list. Objects instantiated from classes derived from the tracker class are automatically tracked when the target objects are initialized, be it on a heap or on a stack, because the constructor of the tracker class is invoked by the constructor of the target class. The tracker class is defined as a template, so that it can be applied to any type of target object.

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