Inheritance in C

[Chandrasekharan P]

I dont know if this is the right forum to post this query i wanted to know if we can achieve inheritance and encapsulation in C.

[Stuart Dootson]

With some effort, you can mimic inheritance. Use of structs effectively gets you encapsulation.

[Chandrasekharan P]

a little more explanation will be of great help.

[CPallini]

Why don't you use C++, instead?

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[Jijo Raj]

Just read this - Object Oriented Programming in C[^]. Implementing OOP behavior in C is not tough because cfront - the first C++ compiler does compilation by translating C++ source to C and then compile it. If you are insterested, have a look at the cfront source from here[^]. Regards, Jijo.

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[Chandrasekharan P]

that is a good qusestion.. :-) i can certainly use C++. but its just the curiosity to know how it can be done. i actually saw in a forum that inheritance can be acheived in c but there was no practical example available in the forum, there was only some explanations that was not satisfactory. so wanted to know more about it . if you could provide that would be great.

[David Crow]

struct base { }; struct derived : public base { };

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[Chris Losinger]

? struct derived : public base that is not C

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[David Crow]

I see that I failed to see that the OP wanted a solution in C. :doh:

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