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I have noticed that it always crashes, when I try to load a file while loading another.
There is also _Generic which lets you decide the logic of picking the overload:
Thanks! Did not know that.
I don't think there exists anything for that. If you change name, you'll have different name. For …
I'm trying to have function overloading in C. The first idea is to just do what C++ does: mangling…
Thanks Martin, that helps a lot. Oh didn't realise the 2gb limit which might make it not worth it.
That is one way how to do that. Sometimes strict corporate anti-virus software may not like that, …
In a handmade chat I remember Casey say you can attach your assets to the end of your exe to turn …
Only on string literals. You can build string + size with macro:
Wait, you can use sizeof on string? I don't even know that. I always thought you need to use somet…
To print lots of new lines with printf you can create a string that contains only new lines and us…
Thanks for replying! I want to get better at metaprogramming so your help is much appreciated. Som…
Yes, to repeat other character than space you need for loop. #line directive will make compiler ge…
So to just print 10 new lines, I can only use a for loop? Are there any other printf arguments tha…
For some reason, this will print 10 empty spaces rather than lines. That is expected. *. for %s te…
For some reason, this will print 10 empty spaces rather than lines. Also, VS couldn't find the cor…
%*.s works just fine with any string. For example, for 4 space indent: As for caller names & line …
For some reason "%*.s" doesn't work with "\n". Another thing that I want to add is the function ca…
If you need correct alignment, you need to parse it and print it out. There's no magic solutions f…
Each of my tokens has a column and line number. When parsing I just do a simple printf("%.*s", tok…
Didn't thought about that. Thanks.
While that will work, it'll be annoying as the debug symbols will points to the copies and you'll …
If you need to modify the code but don't want to modify the original file than you'll need to make…
So what if you want to do something more complex like adding new keywords (e.g defer)? I can't gen…
Your meta program could generate a file called typedefs.h that only contains the typedefs and you …
I just finished watching the metaprogramming episode and want to try it out. One of the first thin…
For the first example, I can just treat the function as matrix multiplication. The inverse rotatio…
Jason —
Congratulations on getting to feature complete status (even if its not the final feature set). I k…