I am using C NOT C++!
I know the C++ collections, but I was wondering if Microsoft has a C based List structure of some type, like the linux kernel provides, that I can use in a user mode project?
I would prefer not rolling my own.
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I am using C NOT C++!
I know the C++ collections, but I was wondering if Microsoft has a C based List structure of some type, like the linux kernel provides, that I can use in a user mode project?
I would prefer not rolling my own.
reusable collections are tough in C, it just doesn’t have the flexibility or metadata (how do you know when you are overflowing this array list and need to reallocate? How do will reallocate work if the rest of the code is using a custom alloc?
You can do it (you CAN do anything in c), but it gets abstract really fast.
On the other hand, creating a linked list in c yourself is downright fun. Arrays are already there, hashes are annoying but not impossible, trees are fun, …
Also–people who think in c tend to be constantly optimizing. Setting every linked list operation behind a function call instead of just using this=this.next would probably disgust many of them (rightfully so).