Readme is already on CPAN here: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/Stlgen-0.012.readme
> I've been fiddling with Template::Toolkit a bit lately and came up with > something odd and interesting (to me anyway). > > I created a module called Stlgen.pm which uses templates to generate C > code. The C code implements a linked list. The perl code and the template > controls what records are in linked list elements (i.e. characters, > integers, unsigned longs, strings, whatever you want). It even supports > multiple records per element, such as "name" and "age" and "height" and > "weight". Each with their own types. > > The templates handle sorting (with a default numeric compare that can be > overridden by the user in c code to be string compare or whatever they > want). It implements it with a merged sort, which has been confirmed to > work, at least with unsigned integers as an example. > > The templates also support a "dumper" function, which will dump out > whatever records/types you decide to put in the linked list element. > > Basically, it's the Standard Template Library (STL) container class for > linked lists, but instead of using the template functionality of C++, > Stlgen.pm uses the Template::Toolkit from perl and generates instances of > the class in plain C code. > > I have no idea if its been done before, but it was an intriguing exercise > that piqued my interest and I decided to see if it was possible. Mostly it > turned into a learning exercise for Template::Toolkit and how to look at a > linked list in C in completely generic (templatable) terms. > > Anyway, I just got it to the point where the sort function successfully > sorts a list and decided to archive a somewhere other than my harddrive so > I'd have a backup. And also introduce it to the public and see if this was > at all interesting to anyone else. > > Like I said, I have no idea if someone already has some sort of solution > for having a configurable linked list in C or not. If I've reinvented the > wheel, then if nothing else, I learned how to do a merged-sort algorithm. > > I just uploaded the tarball to cpan, it should show up here somewhere: > > http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/ > > It is an alpha version. I'm calling it rev 0.012. So it may have some > bugs. But it creates compilable c code and includes an example main.c > which fills a list with numbers, sorts it, and dumps the contents. > > The Stlgen.pm module is coded in a fairly generic way such that other > container templates could be added to it and the same user interface would > work regardless of whether it was a linked list in C or a hash in C or > some other container in some language that doesn't support those > containers naitively. > > If anyone does a lot of C coding would be willing to take a peek at my > module, generate a linked list, and play around with it a bit, I'd > appreciate any feedback. It is alpha, so don't put it in your > deliverables. > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
