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		monkeyelite 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I write type-safe generic data structures in C How do I write a C function which operates on array of type T? Which generic operations does the language provide?

gpderetta 10 months ago [–]

Arrays are generic, but of course C doen't provide generic functions.

You can generically copy arrays [1], index them, iterate them, compute their size. But that's not the point, the point is that you can instantiate them for any (complete) T.

[1] well, C is weird, so you first need to wrap them in a struct.

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