Sometimes, there just isn’t a better way. You have to implement the DoNothing() method. Or even IsTrue(). At least, that’s what D.C. assumed when he saw a a class with a member variable named “self” …

 

class CERTlib 
{
  private:
    CERTlib*  self; // Pointer to self
  ... snip ...
}

He figured it was for some bizarre workaround or, worse case, a misleading name for a variable that actually made some sense. A trip to the constructor cleared things up …

 

CERTlib::CERTlib(...) 
{
   // Store ptr to self
   self = this;
   ...
}

Figuring it must be some vestigial workaround, D.C. did a search of the code. As it turned out, it was still used. In a single place … 

fnCERTlibDeinitialize( this->self );
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