Hi,
I've written some code for C. I am no expert but some C code seems NOT C!!!
For example the printf.c contains chinese C for me.
I never learned those stuff like:
_lock_str2(1, stdout);
__try {
What's up with all these underscores???
Can someone tell me why this code is VERY different from what you learn in textbooks and where I can read more about it.
Thanks.
Things with double __ in them are reserved for the use of the compiler. So this is the implementation, which means it may very well be implementation- or OS-specific.
_lock_str2 is a function...
__try is... well, I can only guess that it's a compiler-specific implementation of the C++ try keyword.
Originally Posted by Adak
__try is somewhere between __half_assed and __best_effort
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where CAN I read more about this chinese C ?????
Is there a book, web site.
What is called, this chinese C?
I don't know what printf.c you're looking at (the GNU printf.c doesn't have __try in it that I can find). As mentioned, __try would have to be compiler-specific, so the proper place to read about it would be "your compiler's user's manual".
I can google for examples of _lock_str2 and its counterpart unlock. Can't seem to get at a manual though. I can guess that it locks the stream while input/output is performed.
Yoda: "__do, or __do_not. There is no __try."
Sorry, couldn't resit the temptation.
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Note that function calls (user-defined functions!) aren't covered by any C book. It's a function, so you have to understand what it does, just as you would have to in your own code.
And it's not chinese C. It's perfectly fine C.
Is C , C++ or Java extensible languages?
What is an extensible language? I have the definition but no example so I don't understand.
Wikipedia: Extensible programming is a term used in computer science to describe a style of computer programming that focuses on mechanisms to extend the programming language, compiler and runtime environment.
Could you give me examples?
How can you modify the compiler?
Thanks.
You can write your own functions and data structures in C and your own operators in C++, so I'd call them extensible.
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>> How can you modify the compiler?
Taking the question only losely, I will say you can modify the behavior of your compiler through compiler flags.
Taking the question more literally, you would have to recompile the whole compiler.
... compilers are such wonderful black boxes.
I'd agree with "very flexible", but I don't think that C or C++ (or Java for that matter) counts as "extensible languages" as such. They are all languages that can do many things, including be used to write other languages and many other things. But strictly speaking, not extensible - you can't freely and simply (using the existing language definition) change the language itself - you can use existing language structures to do things that may not make much sense ( using % as an operator on strings to perform something like strtok(), perhaps?), but that's not, strictly speaking, changing the language as such - it is defined in the C++ language that operator% takes two parameters, and you can use that for whatever purpose you like (some things may make more sense than others, but that's a different matter altogether).
In the sense of runtime, I guess that you can modify that in C or C++ - and of course, it's possible to extend the compiler - most vendors do, but those extensions only make it into the standard after many years.
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