Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 28/05/2024 11:30, bart wrote:

On 28/05/2024 03:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 27 May 2024 14:03:16 +0100, bart wrote:
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On 27/05/2024 03:48, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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Apparently that is not so easy as you seem to think.

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Yes, it is as easy as I think. I’ve done this sort of thing, using
suitable build scripts.

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Show me.

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Here <https://github.com/ldo/unicode_browser_android> is an old
example, from when I was trying to learn Android programming. It lets
you browse the Unicode code-point database, and do incremental
searches by partial matching on code-point names: e.g. you can type
“right arrow” and see candidate matches such as “U+219B RIGHTWARDS
ARROW WITH STROKE”, “U+219D RIGHTWARDS WAVE ARROW”, “U+21A0 RIGHTWARDS
TWO HEADED ARROW” etc.
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In the “util” subdirectory, you will find a Python script called
“get_codes”. This processes a NamesList.txt file as downloaded from
Unicode.org, and encodes the database as a binary blob with a
specially-constructed header to allow quick loading and extraction of
code-point information, including names, categories, related entries
etc. This blob gets built as a “resource file” into the .apk file,
where the Java code can find it.

 OK, so basically this writes a file. Or, part of a file?
 Where is the bit in the Java code that embeds it. Or is writing it as part of the .apk what you consider embedding?
 This is like saying that there's no point in anyone doing:
   #embed "clang.exe"
 because building that program is so much more complicated. (Or would be if somebody hadn't already done it.)
 The point is this: /once you already have those discrete files/, how do you painlessly embed them into your application?
 

Yes, I've spent a lot of time on the Baby X resource compiler. If it is just a case of converting binary files to C arrays, then of course that is trivial. But people want to do more. I've just added facilities for specifying output formats for arrays of structures. They're not merged in yet, I'm not convinced the approach is right.
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