Terry Mahaffey questions

Terry Mahaffey answers

• operator bool() converted to std::string and conflict with operator std::string()
• C++ checking the type of reference
• Is the memory alignment different for different data types
• which is better: a lying copy constructor or a non-standard one?
• Best way to slow down a thread? Is using Sleep() OK?
• how to cache a lambda in c++0x?
• Returning recursive ternary freaks out
• Release LIB is huge compared to debug
• 'hash_map' was not declared in this scope with g++ 4.2.1
• C++ retrieve exception information