I found a lot of bugs went away when I switched to STL (Standard Template Librar...

augustk · on Feb 20, 2023

It's even easier if you use a garbage collector, like for instance libgc. Then you just replace

  (ptr) = malloc((n) * sizeof (ptr)[0]);

with

  (ptr) = GC_MALLOC((n) * sizeof (ptr)[0]);

in the macro and don't have to worry about calling free.

krapp · on Feb 20, 2023

>That's C++, I guess it's not available in straight C?

No, because C doesn't have templates. The best you can do for a "vector" in C is macros like above, that also realloc, or write an API around structs for each type.

GnarfGnarf · on Feb 23, 2023

Too bad. STL deque's are non-contiguous, allow for much bigger arrays. I had an application that used vector<>, ran out of contiguous memory. deque<> solved the problem.