Re: Approach to create/use containers in C

From	"A. Bolmarcich" <aggedor@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Approach to create/use containers in C
Date	2017-05-04 21:47 +0000
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On 2017-05-04, Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to create many dynamic arrays and some maps in C for different types.
>
> How do you deal with this problem?
[snip]

When I did it years ago, I used an approach like

#define ARRAY_TYPE MYTYPE
#include "ARRAY.h"
#udef ARRAY_TYPE

I used a single include file instead of separate DECLARE_ARRAY and 
IMPLEMENT_ARRAY files.  A #define before the #include controlled 
whether the include file was to produce declarations or definitions.

The containers held structs rather than individual variables.  Memory 
management of those structs was the responsibility of the program that 
used the container.

One of the elements of that struct was of a type with a name like 
ARRAY_LINK.  The typename was a struct declared by the include file.  

The generated functions accessed only the elements of ARRAY_LINK.  
The generated functions were usually short.  By default, they were 
defined as static so that optimizing compilers could inline calls to 
the generated function or generate function call code that was compact.

The generated functions were type-specific to the struct held in a
container.

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Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 06:13 -0700
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-04 09:27 -0400
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 15:26 +0200
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 15:29 +0200
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 06:40 -0700
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 15:49 +0200
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-04 16:38 +0100
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 09:59 -0700
          Re: Approach to create/use containers in C bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-04 18:45 +0100
            Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 10:22 -0700
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 06:33 -0700
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 15:40 +0200
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 06:54 -0700
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 16:06 +0200
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-04 15:46 +0100
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 07:50 -0700
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-04 16:10 +0100
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 08:18 -0700
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 09:48 -0700
          Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-04 17:55 +0100
          Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-05-04 22:04 +0000
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-04 20:03 +0100
          Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 12:25 -0700
            Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-04 15:03 -0500
              Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 13:09 -0700
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-05 01:34 -0700
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 17:17 +0200
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-04 19:36 +0100
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-04 12:09 -0500
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-04 12:17 -0500
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 10:30 -0700
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-05 07:50 +1200
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-04 11:29 -0700
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Andreas Perstinger <andipersti@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 18:34 +0000
        Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-04 15:07 -0500
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Doug Weiman <no@nyet.net> - 2017-05-04 21:19 +0000
    Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-04 14:41 -0700
      Re: Approach to create/use containers in C Doug Weiman <no@nyet.net> - 2017-05-04 22:30 +0000
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C "A. Bolmarcich" <aggedor@earl-grey.cloud9.net> - 2017-05-04 21:47 +0000
  Re: Approach to create/use containers in C luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 00:43 -0700

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