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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" |
| Date | 2012-10-21 20:28 +1300 |
| Message-ID | <aehmgmFqjpsU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 10/21/12 20:11, Les Cargill wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> On 10/21/12 07:44, Les Cargill wrote: >>> Juha Nieminen wrote: >>> >>>> However, in the case of C the "simplicity" is not actually a factor >>>> that helps writing simple programs. On the contrary, the "simplicity" >>>> of the language is actually a limiting factor. Rather than help, it >>>> impedes the writing of simple programs, requiring many of even the >>>> simplest tasks to have complex and error-prone implementations. It >>>> often requires following strict coding conventions to avoid mistakes, >>>> coding conventions that are completely unnecessary in truly simple >>>> languages. Truly simple languages allow the programmer to concentrate >>>> purely on the task at hand, without having to pay any attention to such >>>> trivial and inconsequential matters as memory management and such. >>> >>> C++ is much *worse* for memory management than is 'C' - in that >>> the possibility of memory leaks goes up. Absent writing GUI code, >>> it's entirely possible to write entire deployable systems that use no >>> dynamic memory at all in 'C'. indeed, that's been the shop >>> standard most places I have worked. >> >> You can do and some embedded code I've worked on does the same in C++. C >> simply can't do RAII, > > Not in the specific manner Stoustrup used it, but it's > perfectly easy to achieve the same goal. I'm sorry, but it isn't. RAII is one C++ feature that C can't do. > But RAII is > much less a concern when you don't have exceptions... Not at all. It can be used anywhere a resource has to be managed. It avoids the goto spaghetti often seen in C code to handle an allocation failure in a block of allocations. >> so C++ has a built in advantage when it comes to >> memory (or any other resource) management. The ability to automatically >> manage resources also removes the last excuse to use goto, but that's >> another story! >> >>>> C isn't that kind of language. In C the "simplicity" forces the >>>> programmer to write complex programs that need to constantly be careful >>>> about things that should normally be non-issues. >>>> >>>> This doesn't mean that C++ is a simple language in this regard. >>>> However, C++ is a lot *better* in this regard than C. Yes, there are >>>> coding conventions that need to be followed eg. because of memory >>>> management reasons, but those conventions are simpler and easier to >>>> follow, and much of the work is done automatically by the compiler. >>> >>> Not... really. Let's not confuse our preferences for facts, shall we? >> >> Just compare code using automatic resource management with code that >> does it by hand. Pay particular attention to the clean up code if the >> nth allocation in a function fails.... >> > > Sorry, this really doesn't apply to any cases I've seen in a long > time that were not GUI programs You obviously haven't looked at kernel and library code! -- Ian Collins
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Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-10-27 05:04 -0700
Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-10-27 08:06 -0500
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Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-10-27 11:13 -0500
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Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-10-27 15:46 -0500
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Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-21 07:43 -0400
Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-10-21 10:36 -0700
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Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Steve Thompson <stevet810@gmail.com> - 2012-10-22 15:08 +0000
Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-22 14:42 -0400
Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-21 10:12 +0100
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