Re: How do I do generic programming in C?

[user923005]

On May 13, 10:21 am, "Robbie Hatley"
<see.my.signat. ..@for.my.email .addresswrote:
[snip]

So... is there any way of emulating templates in C?
Or do I just have to live with duplicate functions?

Not really, but you can do like I did in chapter 13 of "C Unleashed":

Windows line endings:

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/code/cubookcode.zip

Unix line endings:

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/code/cubookcode.tar.gz

You will see that I generate the appropriate source code by defining a
macro. It's "somewhat template like" in a perverse sort of way. In
fact, the code turns into templates if you use C++ to compile it.

[user923005]

Re: How do I do generic programming in C?

On May 14, 3:52 pm, user923005 <dcor...@connx. comwrote:

On May 13, 10:21 am, "Robbie Hatley"<see.my. signat...@for.m y.email.address wrote:
>
[snip]
>

So... is there any way of emulating templates in C?
Or do I just have to live with duplicate functions?

>
Not really, but you can do like I did in chapter 13 of "C Unleashed":
>
Windows line endings:http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/...cubookcode.zip
>
Unix line endings:http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/...ookcode.tar.gz
>
You will see that I generate the appropriate source code by defining a
macro.  It's "somewhat template like" in a perverse sort of way.  In
fact, the code turns into templates if you use C++ to compile it.

You can also get the chapter 13 only stuff here:

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/errata/896213nw.zip