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Re: The C23 edition of Modern C

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Post by com2kid »

pjmlp wrote: post #4
belter wrote: post #2

Important reminder just in the Preface :-) Takeaway #1: "C and C++ are different: don’t mix them, and don’t mix them up"

Specially relevant to all those folks that insist on "Coding C with a C++ compiler", instead of safer language constructs, and standard library alternatives provided by C++ during the last decades.

Perfectly valid to do if you need to interface with a large C code base and you just want to do some simple OO here and there. Especially if you cannot have runtime exceptions and the like.

This is how I managed to sneak C++ into an embedded C codebase. We even created some templates for data structures that supported static allocation at compile time.

Re: The C23 edition of Modern C

#14

Post by f1shy »

com2kid wrote: post #11
pjmlp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Specially relevant to all those folks that insist on "Coding C with a C++ compiler", instead of safer language constructs, and standard library alternatives provided by C++ during the last decades.

Perfectly valid to do if you need to interface with a large C code base and you just want to do some simple OO here and there. Especially if you cannot have runtime exceptions and the like. This is how I managed to sneak C++ into an embedded C codebase. We even created some templates for data structures that supported static allocation at compile time.

What would be an example of "simple OO here and there" that cannot be done cleanly in plain C?

Re: The C23 edition of Modern C

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Post by f1shy »

belter wrote: post #2

Important reminder just in the Preface :-) Takeaway #1: "C and C++ are different: don’t mix them, and don’t mix them up"

A couple of months ago, in the company I work, there was a talk from HR, where they explained how to make a good CV (the company is firing lots of people). She say: "if you have experience in programming C, you can writing just that, or, if you have lots of experience in C, is customary to write ``C++ Experience'' "

Sooo... yeah... I should definitely change company!

Re: The C23 edition of Modern C

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Post by raluk »

f1shy wrote: post #14
com2kid wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perfectly valid to do if you need to interface with a large C code base and you just want to do some simple OO here and there. Especially if you cannot have runtime exceptions and the like. This is how I managed to sneak C++ into an embedded C codebase. We even created some templates for data structures that supported static allocation at compile time.

What would be an example of "simple OO here and there" that cannot be done cleanly in plain C?

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