I love C where types are basically a suggestion rather than a rule
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Funny, I was thinking the same things. But then again, I've encountered code like the OP described. Usually written by electrical engineers.
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:laugh: You mean C++ that is no more than C or, even worse, FORTRAN?
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C++ is ... hard to read and often very hard to write
Am I using it wrong, because I've never had these problems?
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Well, some of the template stuff out there... :wtf:
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yeah, that'll work so long as you don't stash your structs pointers this way. :)
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The cast operator is why I can cast my struct directly to an "array" of bytes and stash it in a file. It makes me happy. It's so elegant. So concise. And so dangerous.
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the file is also not compatible between architecture to the next! :( i.e. endianess for sure.. but probably computer struct paddings too! :/ though haven't used C in decades, so I am not so sure about that one...
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the file is also not compatible between architecture to the next! :( i.e. endianess for sure.. but probably computer struct paddings too! :/ though haven't used C in decades, so I am not so sure about that one...
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Sometimes that doesn't matter. Sometimes you're writing software dedicated to a particular microcontroller and it expects the thing to be wired a certain way in order to run anyway.
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Sometimes that doesn't matter. Sometimes you're writing software dedicated to a particular microcontroller and it expects the thing to be wired a certain way in order to run anyway.
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oh well.. yes if consumer and producer is the same one, I guess it's all good! :)
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Well, some of the template stuff out there... :wtf:
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:laugh: You mean C++ that is no more than C or, even worse, FORTRAN?
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Yeah, that too. But yes, c++ that was like trying to interpret sanskrit.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Yeah, but that processing the struct after-the-fact. Her technique is great for 'simple' structs.
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The cast operator is why I can cast my struct directly to an "array" of bytes and stash it in a file. It makes me happy. It's so elegant. So concise. And so dangerous.
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I've read this subject line several times now, wanting to point out what's so wrong with it. Anyway, I think you will love Javascript.
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There's a special place in programmer hell for whoever came up with duck typing.
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The cast operator is why I can cast my struct directly to an "array" of bytes and stash it in a file. It makes me happy. It's so elegant. So concise. And so dangerous.
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den2k88 wrote:
C++ is ... hard to read and often very hard to write
Am I using it wrong, because I've never had these problems?
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Neither did I, until I discovered I "was using it wrong" and had some "true C++ programmer" abusing templates lambda functions like there was no tomorrow.
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The C++ one is even more accurate when pointers are involved !
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The cast operator is why I can cast my struct directly to an "array" of bytes and stash it in a file. It makes me happy. It's so elegant. So concise. And so dangerous.
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You could always use a union, no need to even cast then (: I wouldn't want to program in C targeting a PC these days; but it is good for 8 & 16 bit embedded work, where you need to get at hardware registers and only have maybe 2K RAM and 16K or 32K ROM.
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The cast operator is why I can cast my struct directly to an "array" of bytes and stash it in a file. It makes me happy. It's so elegant. So concise. And so dangerous.
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If you were using [fwrite](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/fwrite), you wouldn't even need a cast...
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Dang! I chased FAR too many pointers! :laugh:
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I use unions sometimes, but i only needed the cast in two places in the code that inspired this post, and it was all it was ever going to need. :)
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I really liked being able to cast nearly anything to anything. For a cheap and easy (and not too secure) 'encryption' I'd just do something like:
union {
char * readable;
ulong * notSoMuch;
}and then you can trivially make a string unreadable by storing the int array in a text file (lots of options there, too, spaced or other-delimiters? left-zero-filled? Decryption is obvious - and really no overhead as all - I always though of it as the string and its encrypted version coexisting in different planes of their little universe.
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I really liked being able to cast nearly anything to anything. For a cheap and easy (and not too secure) 'encryption' I'd just do something like:
union {
char * readable;
ulong * notSoMuch;
}and then you can trivially make a string unreadable by storing the int array in a text file (lots of options there, too, spaced or other-delimiters? left-zero-filled? Decryption is obvious - and really no overhead as all - I always though of it as the string and its encrypted version coexisting in different planes of their little universe.
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I use the union technique for that in both C(++) and C#. I don't *always* use it in the former just because i hate declaring new types for one or two lines of code where it will be used. i don't really believe in security by obscurity in most cases, but it may be useful for shrouding source code.
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