CPAN indexed it so you can read the pod or download the tarball here: http://search.cpan.org/~gslondon/Stlgen-0.012/
Hm, the "dependencies" link doesn't show Template.pm. Will need to fix that. Greg > 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
