Having C code looking like C++ code

[Fronsac]

Hi,
I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never really
done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

[bd]

Fronsac wrote:

Hi,
I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never
really done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web
sites that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point
me to some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

Making C code look like C++ generally requires making it actually be C++.
Why would you try to make one language only look like another? There's no
advantage, unless you're trying for the IOCCC.

[Dave Vandervies]

In article <AL************ *********@wagne r.videotron.net >,
Fronsac <fr************ *@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never really
done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!
Answer #1: Why would you want to?
Answer #2: By writing bad C code
Answer #2b: By writing C code that looks like bad C++ code
Answer #3: By writing in the common subset of C and C++ (but see #1 and #2)
Answer #4: What are you really trying to find out?

One possibility is that they want C++-clean C code for a possible upgrade
path to C++. The correct solution to this is to use C++'s `extern "C"'
to allow C and C++ code to be linked together, and have C (compiled as
C) and C++ (compiled as C++) linked together when they want old (C)
code and new (C++) code in the same program. All that this requires
is that the header files used be both C-clean and C++-clean, which is
rather easier than the general case of all code.
Unless they're talking about all the angle brackets that C++ uses.
You might be able to get away with using the <: and :> digraphs for that.
dave

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[Fronsac]

> Making C code look like C++ generally requires making it actually be C++.

Why would you try to make one language only look like another? There's no
advantage, unless you're trying for the IOCCC.

C++ is not always accessible on some platforms (think game consoles like the
old game boy might not have access to a C++ compiler), so you'll have to use
C and some tricks to have it behave like C++. From what I've gathered so
far, it's impossible with C syntax to achieve inheritence, though you can
fake it. For example :

struct Foo {
int var1;
}

struct Bar {
struct Foo base;
int var2;
}

Bar* createBar() {
return malloc( sizeof(Bar) );
}

void foo_incVar1( Foo* foo ) {
foo->var1++;
}

void bar_incVar2( Bar* bar ) {
bar->var2++;
/* though, you realize that if I want to access var1, I have to do
bar->base.var1, or ((Foo*)bar)->var1).
The thing that bugs me most though is that you can encapsulate your
data. */
}

void main() {
Foo* foo = (Foo*) createBar();
foo_incVar1( foo ); /* increments var1 */
bar_incVar2( (Bar*) foo ); /* increments var2 */
}

And you can use function pointers to simulate virtual methods for your
"objects".

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

"Fronsac" <fr************ *@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never really
done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

You posted the same question with slightly different subject lines
to (at least) a.c.l.l.c-c++ and c.l.c.

If you feel the need to post to more than one news-group, please
cross-post rather than multi-post. Thank you.

BTW: C++ is off-topic in c.l.c.

Irrwahn,
change codepage to make english text look like chinese text.
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[Nathan]

> Hi,

I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never really done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

Hi,

Do you mean you want to do object oriented programming in C? In that case,
there are many ways of doing this. The following article describes one way:
http://www.accu.org/acornsig/public/articles/oop_c.html

Regards,
Nathan

[Fronsac]

> You posted the same question with slightly different subject lines

to (at least) a.c.l.l.c-c++ and c.l.c.
Yeah, I was too lazy to copy-paste the subject line from the other post. I
posted in two forums just to be sure at least one person answered me. :)
If you feel the need to post to more than one news-group, please
cross-post rather than multi-post. Thank you.
What is cross-post? Could you explain me what it is and how to do it? Thanks
a lot.
BTW: C++ is off-topic in c.l.c.

That's fine. I only asked here because I wanted to know more about a certain
way to code in C, and I thought here would be a great place to start.

[Joona I Palaste]

Fronsac <fr************ *@hotmail.com> scribbled the following:

If you feel the need to post to more than one news-group, please
cross-post rather than multi-post. Thank you.

What is cross-post? Could you explain me what it is and how to do it? Thanks
a lot.

Cross-posting is posting the same article to multiple newsgroups
simulatenously. Not identical copies of the article - the SAME article.
How to actually do this depends on your newsreader. All that is NEEDED
is that the NNTP headers have a "Newsgroups :" line consisting of
multiple newsgroup names (separated with commas), but not all
newsreaders allow you to edit NNTP headers directly. (tin, which I use
myself, does.)
Another way, and one recommended for Usenet beginners who don't yet
know how NNTP works, is to look around the "compose message" (or
similar) window and search for a text box labelled "Newsgroup" or
something. Then just type multiple group names (separated with commas)
there. Depending on your newsreader, it might or might not work. It
will work on most non-brain-dead newsreaders. (I count Microsoft
Outlook Express as non-brain-dead, but Google as brain-dead.)

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[stelios xanthakis]

"Nathan" <na************ @hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bm******* ***@reader11.wx s.nl>...

Hi,
I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never

really

done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

Hi,

Do you mean you want to do object oriented programming in C? In that case,
there are many ways of doing this. The following article describes one way:
http://www.accu.org/acornsig/public/articles/oop_c.html

Or you can study the lightweight C++ preprocessor, which takes as input
a language that looks like C++ and produces good old C.

http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/lwc/index.html

Next version has template specializations and other goodies.

[Ben Pfaff]

"Fronsac" <fr************ *@hotmail.com> writes:

I've been asked in a job interview how to make C code look like C++
code, and honestly I didn't know what to answer because I have never really
done a lot of C. Now, I've been searching around the web about web sites
that talk about this subject, but I've had no luck. Can anyone point me to
some web site about this subject? Thanks a lot!

You could name all of your header files without .h suffixes.
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near the Exit sign. The sign on the case says, `In case of optimization
problem, break glass.' Meanwhile, the problem solvers are busy doing their
work in languages most appropriate to the job at hand." --Richard Riehle