Question

Past few days I have been “downgrading” > 1000 filem of C++ code into C.
It’s been going well until now. Suddenly I’m face to face with a class…

The compiler pointed out the error first in the header file:

class foobar {
    foo mutex;
public:
    foobar() {
        oneCreate(&mutex, NULL);
    }
    ~foobar() {
        oneDestroy(mutex);
        mutex = NULL;
    }
    void ObtainControl() {
        oneAcquire(mutex);
    }
    void ReleaseControl() {
        oneRelease(mutex);
    }
};

And of course, the C file has to take advantage of this

foobar fooey;
fooey.ObtainControl();

I don’t even know where to start…. Help?

Answer 1

Turn foobar into a normal struct

struct foobar {
    goo mutex;
};

Create your own “constructor” and “destructor” as functions that you call on that struct

void InitFoobar(foobar* foo)
{
   oneCreate(&foo->mutex);
}

void FreeFoobar(foobar* foo)
{
   oneDestroy(foo->mutex);
}

struct foobar fooStruct;
InitFoobar(&fooStruct);
// ..
FreeFoobar(&fooStruct);

etc