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| From | Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Float Vs Double |
| Date | 2016-08-12 08:11 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kfntweqf2du.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <0bae28e0-b651-41ba-b195-d5623c70eb18@googlegroups.com> <lnfuqctvfe.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <lnbn10tv1g.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <kfnfuqbgzyt.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <fd73511d-4c10-4c16-a05e-400aa5645955@googlegroups.com> |
"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 10:08:56 AM UTC-4, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>>
>>> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>>>> supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> If I were designing a language, I'd include two kinds of variadic functions
>>>>> (with a requirement that a prototype identifying the calling convention be in
>>>>> scope before the call):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. For functions that use a fixed type, I'd have a declaration that would
>>>>> cause a sequence of arguments to be stored in a temporary array and
>>>>> have the caller receive the address of the array and its length. On
>>>>> most implementations, creating the array on the stack would take the
>>>>> same amount of work as pushing arguments individually, so the only
>>>>> extra work would be passing the pointer and the length, but the called
>>>>> function would then be guaranteed to have an actual array, and it would
>>>>> also be callable with an array.
>>>>
>>>> I'd make it possible to pass arrays as arguments (perhaps by reference),
>>>> and provide a reasonable syntax for constructing an array value. So
>>>> rather than
>>>> func(10, 20, 30, 40);
>>>> you could write something like
>>>> func([10, 20, 30, 40]);
>>>> with func taking a single argument of array type, with the bounds made
>>>> available to the function. It avoids the need for a special kind of
>>>> variadic function and can be used in other contexts.
>>>>
>>>> A number of languages already do something like this.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> For that matter, it's not that hard to do the equivalent in C:
>>>
>>> const int arg[] = { 10, 20, 30, 40 };
>>> func(arg, sizeof arg / sizeof arg[0]);
>>>
>>> A little syntactic sugar would be nice, but it's not really necessary.
>>
>> Most of the sugaring can be provided by using a suitably defined
>> macro. Here is a short program to illustrate.
>>
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> #define COUNTED_ARRAY( T, ... ) COUNTED_ARRAY_1_( ((T[]){ __VA_ARGS__ }) )
>> #define COUNTED_ARRAY_1_( it ) (sizeof it / sizeof 0[it]), it
>>
>>
>> unsigned
>> add_up( size_t n, unsigned v[static n] ){
>> unsigned i, t;
>> printf( " there are %zu elements...\n", n );
>> for( i = 0, t = 0; i < n; i++ ) t += v[i];
>> return t;
>> }
>>
>> int
>> main(){
>> unsigned sum = add_up( COUNTED_ARRAY( unsigned, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ) );
>> printf( " sum is %u\n", sum );
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how so many developers actually believe
> something like this is a valid solution for everyday people using the
> language. [...]
I expect you will continue to be amazed for some years to come.
Note by the way that I wasn't advocating this approach be used,
only that it is a way of providing some of the syntactic sugar
for the technique Keith Thompson was discussing.
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Re: Float Vs Double Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2016-09-03 09:06 +0200
Re: Float Vs Double Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-09-03 10:52 -0400
Re: Float Vs Double Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2016-08-24 08:57 +0200
Re: Float Vs Double Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-08-24 01:04 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-08-08 06:44 +0000
Re: Float Vs Double Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-08 00:16 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2016-08-08 23:29 -0400
Re: Float Vs Double jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-08-08 14:03 +0200
Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 05:14 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-09 19:53 -0500
Re: Float Vs Double "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-08-07 18:47 -0400
Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 17:04 -0700
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Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 20:15 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 06:07 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 06:13 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-08-10 16:43 +0200
Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 07:56 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-08-10 08:39 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-10 09:56 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-10 10:04 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-11 07:08 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-11 07:15 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-12 08:11 -0700
Re: Float Vs Double jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-08-10 20:38 +0200
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Re: Float Vs Double Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-10 13:40 -0700
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