stl for C ?

Did you just ask if C supported C++ classes?

sakky: classes don't have anything to do with libraries. Most languages do have libraries that do not use classes in the C++ sense (and, for instance, O'Caml has a standard library that is approximately as powerful as the STL, but uses no classes in it).

Tylon: while I do not doubt the existence of such libraries, they will certainly be awkward to use because of frequent type casting (as C is lacking universal polymorphism). I do not know of any, personnally. At the risk of sounding a C++ zealot, may I inquire why you must use C only (and not C++) ?

glib, from the GTK+ project, is rather good.

(edit: toooooooo laaaaaaate...)

Did you know GLIB has a function called g_blow_chunks()? True Story.

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At the risk of sounding a C++ zealot...

what's wrong with being a C++ zealot? OOP, once understood, makes life so clean and simple ;)

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Original post by Instruo Quote: At the risk of sounding a C++ zealot... what's wrong with being a C++ zealot? OOP, once understood, makes life so clean and simple ;)

"once understood" being the key words of course. In the mean time, you get to try and avoid undefined behavior, design pitfalls, and the ever-common vague technical reference.

Not to say that C doesn't have it's own minefields, but C++/OOP isn't the panacea most make it out to be.

maybe you just don't understand it very well :D

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what's wrong with being a C++ zealot? OOP, once understood, makes life so clean and simple ;)

C++ is a language, OOP is a programming paradigm. C++ happens to natively implement a (limited) version of OOP, but this is the only relationship between the two. OOP does not require fancy "class" keywords in the language to be used, it only requires the existence of a linking step (and I'm not even sure THAT is required). You can do OOP with any language, including C, so it's not legitimate to use OOP as a justification for using C++

Here's a previous post about "templates" in old-school C. I dropped some code that implements a template styled vector data structure at the bottom.

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Original post by Instruo Quote: At the risk of sounding a C++ zealot... what's wrong with being a C++ zealot? OOP, once understood, makes life so clean and simple ;)

At the risk of sounding like a Java (or Smalltalk, or any of a gazillion other languages for that matter) zealot: How is that an argument for C++? [smile]

I actually prefer C#, personally, I was just joking around. I do think that OOP is generally the better way to go, and I think that C is somewhat outdated and is just making things harder than they need to be for... what? Some principle or something that I don't see, I suppose. (And don't tell me 'performance', because most applications don't begin to scratch the surface of what modern hardware can do). Anyway, enough of that rant ;)

I like using C sometimes because of the power I feel.

You know, like when you are a sniper, and wear all this gear, and just sit and watch all day. Than you come home, and battle with samuarai swords. You can literally feel the torque of the handle as you swing it. You can count the cycles like you can your heartbeat.

Here is the one I have started, Yet to finish , but you can take a look .
http://code.google.com/p/cstl/

Really? You bumped a 6 year old thread for that?