Seems I could not present myself correctly...
Heap and Virtual memory are different
see this for heaps
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366711(VS.85).aspx
This...

You are not moving the cursor at right place before you do a "cout"
Ycan move cursor by including one more function in your point class
in point.h
add a member funtion in the point class

void...

You can use component object modeling, runtime polymorphism, Pure virtual functions.

Dlls (Dynamicly linked library)

Thanks,
Prateek

Two reasons::
1) Microsoft may change behaviour of these APIs without any notifications. Therefore your application may break.
2) Microsoft does not 'supports' usage of thses APIs.

hi
There are two things first
const double *highest = a;
this line says highest is a pointer to a costant means u cant change the content highest is pointing to, next

if (a[i] > *highest)
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