A supposed way to have features enclosed in dot notation namespaces via structs.
You shouldn't be here. This is a self-learning repo for whatever purposes it may serve. It brings no value to the experiended developer (I assume you're one). I don't know what I'm doing (especially in terms of best practices in C).
Use it at your own risk.
I hail from the JavaScript / TypeScript domain with experience in React.js / React Native. I want to see how much of my programming experience is transferrable. In React Native, native modules added to the JavaScript thread are exported using the NativeModules.RN<ModuleName>.<memberMethod> convention. This applies to both Java / Kotlin (Android) and Objective-C / Swift (iOS).
This repository exists to investigate namespacing support in C and whether that brings any value to maintainability (for comparison: in TypeScript, namespacing does bring value — it allows people to be able to associate a function with a set of members serving a common purpose).
You need:
- A CLI terminal that runs Shell scripts (e.g.
bash,zsh). - A C compiler that can work in CLI (e.g.
gcc,clang). - A text editor, preferrably one that has an integrated terminal feature (e.g. VScode, Sublime Text).
Scripts in ./tools. Outputs in ./build.
| Script | Description |
|---|---|
cleanup.sh |
Removes ./build. |
compile.sh |
Creates the main executable. |
run.sh |
Launches the main executable. |
uninstall.sh |
Removes the main executable. |
The struct data type can be used to associate a set of functions together if you design it that way. This Wikipedia article and this StackOverflow post all point to it being possible.
Some discussion points to macros (#define) can't be used as method members, so you're limited to classic functions.
When your functions are expected to only access the values of the arguments you pass to it, you can use the const keyword (a blog post & this StackOveflow post) to formally tell the compiler that the values won't change after executing the function.
Calculating sizeof on a [] parameter can be done, but the compiler will print warnings:
sizeof on array function parameter will return size of 'int *' instead of 'int []' [-Wsizeof-array-argument]
To work around this, the size of the array should be defined by the calling function instead. Ref: this StackOverflow post.