You seem to be worried that writing to part of a structure somehow "dirties" the rest so it's no longer thread-safe. That's not how it works, a structure is really just some data laid out contiguously ...

Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

The C++ spec doesn't even require the implementation to use a vtable AFAIK. With that behind, how hard is it to dump the binary representation of a class and figure out where the pointer is? A simple ...

While there are similarities aplenty between a class and a struct, there are some distinct differences too. Most importantly, a struct unlike a class, is a value type. So, while instances of a class ...