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Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming

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Date 2012-01-07 11:36 +0100
From Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming
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Salut Jacob,

Am 01/07/2012 09:54 AM, schrieb jacob navia:
> Le 07/01/12 09:39, Jens Gustedt a écrit :
>> macros and _Generic

> "macros and _Generic"... can you maybe elaborate a bit?
> That was far to cryptic for my small brain.

probably a bit too terse, yes :)

what I meant is that you need a type generic interface for these things,
not necessarily a language extension

the idea would be to write a whole bunch of type specific functions that
cover the different cases (different primitive types, different
operations). Then you can put a type generic glue arround that by using
macros and the brand new _Generic from C11. This only would give you
function like syntax but would make it easily usable.

Then, after some time there could perhaps be some convergence on the
functionalities and one could think of adding keywords and/or operator
support.

I don't know how far you are for your compiler for implementing _Generic
(if you attacked it at all). Gcc already has equivalent features that
are usable and that I am currently using to implement the set of type
generic atomic_... interfaces of C11. I think the interface complexity
of that is about the same as what would be necessary for vector
operations. (BTW thinking about it, _Pragma can also be quite handy when
programming such things.)

Cheers
Jens

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The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 00:02 +0100
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-06 15:08 -0800
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 00:27 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-06 15:30 -0800
        Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 00:41 +0100
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-07 00:04 +0000
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 09:06 +0100
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-08 03:42 -0800
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-07 13:50 +1300
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 09:31 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-07 22:03 +1300
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-01-07 07:39 -0600
        Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 09:27 -0800
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-01-08 11:37 -0600
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 18:42 +0100
        Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 11:48 +0100
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-01-08 11:16 +0000
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-01-08 11:52 -0600
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-08 14:17 -0800
              Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-08 22:08 -0500
              Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-01-09 11:07 -0600
                Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-09 14:55 -0800
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-09 00:22 +0100
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-01-09 14:19 +0000
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-09 16:40 +0000
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-09 17:53 +0000
            Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 16:58 -0800
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-07 01:28 -0600
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-01-07 09:39 +0100
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-07 09:54 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-01-07 11:36 +0100
  Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 08:08 +0000
    Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 11:41 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 11:53 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 11:59 +0100
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-01-08 11:05 +0000
        Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-08 12:29 +0100
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-01-08 13:35 +0000
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 01:09 -0800
      Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-26 09:23 -0800
        Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-01-26 23:41 +0100
          Re: The container abstraction and parallel programming Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-07 16:18 -0800

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