jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) (08/07/86)
In the August, 1986 issue of SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Programming Languages SIG) there is an article on Generic Packages in C. Abstract: "The structuring achieved by generic packages in Ada can be chapely emulated in C by judicious use of the preprocessor. Two files are required for the generic package: the specification and the body. Two more files are used in the instantiation: one holding the instantiation parameters and one with auxiliary code. Instantiation results in normal C header and object files (*.h and *.o). Dependency control can be delegated to the make program." Ada "generic packages" are a way of allowing the use of 'types' as parameters. -- voice= 415 823-2441 uucp={ihnp4,dual,qantel}!ptsfa!jmc