Generic packages in C

Authors:
Dick Grune
Affiliations:
Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1986

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Abstract

The structuring achieved by generic packages in Ada can be cheaply emulated in C by judicious use of the preprocessor. Two files are required for the generic package: the specification and the body. Two more files are used in the instantiation: one holding the instantiation parameters and one with auxiliary code. Instantiation results in normal C header and object files (*.h and *.o). Dependency control can be delegated to the make progam.