Hi Leon, thanks for your answer. What you described here is exactly my problem. The problem is that I always program in C++ and the few C programs were really small ones. The way to think is a little different and I always think in an object way. I decided to migrate to C++. The code became cleaned and easy to read. One more time, thanks for your answer and I am sorry to take so long to answer :) Best regards Filipe Marques

Thank you Stefan, I didn't know about "locality of concern" or "information hiding". In these couple of days I have been review the code and yes, I am passing information that I am not really using in my functions and I am making all of them available to the user, unnecessarily. Right now I am redrawing the code ... again :laugh: Best regards Filipe Marques

Hi Stefan. Thanks for your answer. It is very smart way to contour the problem. I think I would never figure out a solution like that :) . The reason of so many levels is because the s1 is an identity with a lot of different information and I must have access to them in every function (I thought this was the best way) but I will take a chance in C++. I think in my situation will help me a lot. Best regards Filipe Marques

Hi Richar, thanks for your answer. Yeah, the code is getting realy hard to maintain and each little change I do, it is a nightmare. :( Best regards Filipe Marques

Thanks for your answer Jochen. I have been thinking better and maybe I will accept the Richard suggestion because the real situation is something worst

struct1->struct2->struct3->struct4[struct5->struct6->struct7]

Not pretty ah?. :laugh: Best regards Filipe Marques

Hi everyone, Right now, I am creating a project in C and at some point I am accessing, multi times during the source code, to a struct with a lot of nested structs, like this

struct1->struct2->struct3->struct4->struct5->value1
struct1->struct2->struct3->struct4->struct6->value2

What I created was a macro to clear the code:

#define ACCESS (struct1->struct2->struct3->struct4)

ACCESS->struct5->value1
ACCESS->struct6->value2

My question is: This is a good practice or a very very very bad practice? Best regards, Filipe Marques