Hi everyone, I'm working on a program for numericaly solving differential equations, I have an index i which runs from -LATICE to LATICE. This index undergoes a coordinate substitution according to the problem and is mapped to [0, infinity) in radial coordinates, (-infinity,infinity) for one dimensional problems or [-N,N] for limited one-dimensional problems. I use a function pointer to choose which of the mapping function will be used during run-time. The problem comes with the third mapping, the scaling [-N,N] is just i*N but N is also determined during run-time. So, is there a way of defining a function which is given as parameter N and returns a pointer to a function which multiplies i with N? I tried a bit or round-working, I made a function with variable number of arguments, if more than one parameter is given, the second one sets a static variable N. The first parameter is just i and it returns i*N. And to make it compatible with the function pointer (which needs fixed number of arguments) it is called once to set N and then I use a function with just calls this one without second parameter. So, kind of ugly solution. Anyone knows a solution to the actual problem?
I did, but if I'm not wrong that's only a feature of OO-languages, and I'm using C Sorry I didn't say it explicitly, I'm editing the original post. So, a way of doing it without functors? Or can they be implemented anyhow in C?
No, there's no operator overloading in C so the functor concept will not be achievable. I don't know for sure what the problem is from your description. You said you're using a variable parameter list so that will necessarily compile with cdecl calling conventions and should be OK but I don't see how it is you are determining whether or not there are extra parameters in the list. You can end up with a messed up stack if you do it wrong. Is there some reason why you can't use a dummy parameter in the functions that don't need the extra parameter and just ignore it?
No inevitable reason apart from clean code, I use the mapping function a zillion times in the code and I don't like passing extra parameters which aren't being used. I mean, I've got a solution, not nice but it works. It was more of an educational question. I really would like to learn how to do this (if it is possible) with function pointers. Thanks a lot anyway
Well, as long as the functions are declared __cdecl, you should be safe just doing a static cast on the function pointer to use as many parameters as you want. Something like this: Code: #include <stdio.h> int __cdecl func1(int a,int b) { printf("%d %d\n",a,b); return 1; } int __cdecl func2(int a,int b,int c) { printf("%d %d %d\n",a,b,c); return 1; } int __cdecl func3(int a,int b,int c,int d) { printf("%d %d %d %d\n",a,b,c,d); return 1; } typedef int (*ptr1)(int,int); typedef int (*ptr2)(int,int,int); typedef int (*ptr3)(int,int,int,int); int main(void) { int i; i=((ptr1)(&func3))(1,2); i=((ptr2)(&func2))(1,2,3); i=((ptr3)(&func1))(1,2,3,4); return 0; } should be perfectly safe.
Problem is that it's not posible to write a diferent function that does multiplication with every available N. What I was asking for is a function which is given N as parameter and returns a pointer to a function which does multiplication with N.
Oh, so your just wanting a variable parameter function? Something like this Code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include <varargs.h> double MultFunc(int n,...) { int i; double d=0.0,tmp; va_list ap; va_start(ap,n); d=va_arg(ap,double); for(i=0;i<(n-1);i++){ tmp=va_arg(ap,double); d*=tmp; } va_end(ap); return d; } int main(void) { double d; //first argument tells how many doubles follow d=MultFunc(5,21.005,56.12,2.1313,15.1181,7.7); return 0; }
