Vector code c full#
Vector code c portable#

If you want to learn more about C99/C11 I would recommend reading 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School by Ben Klemens:

Vector code c full#

If you are using Visual Studio 2017 and up, you should be able to use the full C11 Clang toolchain from Visual Studio instead of the CL compiler. Normally, it should work with any recent C99/C11 compiler, with the notable exception of Visual Studio, for which parts of the C99 standard were added starting with the 2013 version. Please note that all the above code was tested with Clang 3.8, GCC 6.3 and Visual Studio 2017. Conceptually, our code has three phases 1 #include 2 #include 3 4 int main () It will be easier to understand how the general case works if we start with an explicit implementation for a dynamic array of integers. If you are using C++, you usually don’t need to implement a vector type, you already have one in the STL, use it.

It goes without saying that this article is written for C programmers or people that use a C compiler. The advantage of this approach is that from a user point of view a dynamic array can be used like a C array, except for the creation and destruction phases. I took from Sean Barrett’s stb libraries the idea that you can store the size information of an array at the beginning of the array, while publicly exposing a pointer to where the array data resides in memory. A better approach is to create a dynamic array that looks like a normal C array, but it is capable to automatically adjust its size as needed. While the original implementation works, it is a bit cumbersome to use in practice.

Vector code c portable#

In my last article I wrote a portable C dynamic array, auto-resizable and theoretically capable to store any C representable data type. Solarian Programmer My programming ramblings Home Archives Contact Privacy C99/C11 dynamic array that mimics C++'s std::vector - API improvements Posted on Januby Paul