That really depends. However, inlining every function results in functions that are used in multiple places to be placed at the point where they're called, and this results in code bloat. That apart, most modern compilers are better judges of what calls can be inlined and do so for the programmer, depending on the compiler's performance settings.
Yes, that is definitely possible and recommended when that makes sense.
Function overloading needs both functions with the same name to also have the same return types. In this case, your compiler shows an error as the name has been used twice in what it expects to be two functions of different names.
The scope of these variables is the life of the function.
int Func(int &someNumber );
someNumber is a reference to the variable in the calling function. It does not hold a copy.
Static arrays have a fixed size and will neither scale upward if your application needs more memory nor will they optimize if your application needs less. This is where dynamic memory allocation makes a difference.
int* pointToAnInt = new int;
int* pCopy = pointToAnInt;
Am I not better off calling delete using both to ensure that the memory is gone?
That would be wrong. You are allowed to invoke delete only once on the address returned by new. Also, you would ideally avoid having two pointers pointing to the same address because performing delete on any one would invalidate the other. Your program should also not be written in a way that you have any uncertainty about the validity of pointers used.
If you don't want to handle the exception std::bad_alloc, you use the nothrow version of operator new that returns NULL if the requested allocation fails.
void CalculateArea (const double* const ptrRadius, double* const
ptrArea);
void CalculateArea (const double& radius, double& area);
Which variant should I prefer?
Use the latter one using references, as references cannot be invalid, whereas pointers can be. Besides, it's simpler, too.
You don't need to so long as it doesn't affect your program performance much. However, if your function parameters accept objects that are quite heavy (large in bytes), then passing by value would be quite an expensive operation. Your function call would be a lot more efficient in using references. Remember to use const generously, except where the function needs to store a result in a variable.
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