NAnaasking·Oct 3, 2017
There are whole libraries that provide these sorts of generic containers for C:
http://sglib.sourceforge.net/
http://klib.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/pmj/genccont
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Generic containers in C. So far: singly & doubly linked lists, a singly-linked queue, a hash table and a binary search tree. As type-safe as I can make them in C. Simple to use and hack; very embeddable - works in user space and in-kernel; 0 build requirements: not even libc needed; can easily cherry-pick only needed source files. zlib license.
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Generic containers in C. So far: singly & doubly linked lists, a singly-linked queue, a hash table and a binary search tree. As type-safe as I can make them in C. Simple to use and hack; very embeddable - works in user space and in-kernel; 0 build requirements: not even libc needed; can easily cherry-pick only needed source files. zlib license.
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2 sourcesI'm not a fan of macros either, which is why I've ended up implementing hybrid C data structures, with the logic in functions, and some optional type helpers in macros:
https://github.com/pmj/genccont
Anyway, these are largely intrusive and don't do reference counting, but that can be seen as an advantage or disadvantage, depending on the situation. (I use these heavily in kernel code) The hash tables (chaining and open addressed linear probing) use function pointers to be type-generic, which might not be to everyone's taste either.
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