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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compiler design in C?
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:54:00 +0000
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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> Le 10/11/2016 à 21:57, Gareth Owen a écrit :
>> I actually considered mentioning this, but decided against it.
>
> And the reason was?

I didn't consider it particularly relevant.

> Why is the pre-processor such an "evil"?

No.  It's fine.

> I find it OK, you can do a lot of things with the preprocessor.

I find it OK, also.

>   81 static int ResizeTo(ValArray *AL,size_t newcapacity)
>   82 {
>   83     ElementType *oldcontents;
>   84
>   85     if (AL->capacity == newcapacity) return 0;
>   86     oldcontents = AL->contents;
>   87     AL->contents = AL->Allocator->realloc(AL->contents,newcapacity
>                          * sizeof(ElementType));
>   88     if (AL->contents == NULL) {
>   89         AL->contents = oldcontents;
>   90         return NoMemory("ResizeTo");
>   91     }
>   92     AL->capacity = newcapacity;
>   93     AL->timestamp++;
>   94     return 1;
>   95 }

What if I want two different containers in the same translation unit?
What mitigation is there for multiple functions called ResizeTo?