Container Base Class

Base class for all classes to be instantiated on the heap.

By convention, all classes derived from CBase have a name beginning with the letter 'C'.

The class has two important features:

1. A virtual destructor that allows instances of derived classes to be destroyed and properly cleaned up through a CBase* pointer. All CBase derived objects can be pushed, as CBase* pointers, onto the cleanup stack, and destroyed through a call to CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy() .

2. Initialisation of the CBase derived object to binary zeroes through a specific CBase::operator new() - this means that members, whose initial value should be zero, do not have to be initialised in the constructor. This allows safe destruction of a partially-constructed object.

Note that using C++ arrays of CBase-derived types is not recommended, as objects in the array will not be zero-initialised (as there is no operator new[] member). You should use an array class such as RPointerArray instead for arrays of CBase-derived types.

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