-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/10/2010 10:15 AM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
I've tried making the algorithms independent by having them take an array and other information, but they need the freedom to reallocate as necessary (or I'd have to have two functions for each operation). That means passing them the allocator as well, at the very least. You end up
Why do you need to pass the allocator? You cannot put the responsibility on the client code to provide a pointer to a free chunk of memory (whether heap/free store-allocated or stack-allocated) to write to?
I could, but I don't see the point. See below.
The alternative, you say, is "I'd have to have two functions for each operations". Can you elaborate?
One to calculate how much memory would be needed, and (probably) allocate it -- the calculation is different for every operation. The other to do the actual calculation. - -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwQ+QMACgkQp9x9jeZ9/wTGFwCgp2u1VTkJSQk/IGGpbYRFcxKj yvMAoMo8SW8B2dD7AdfK3TwG0E8NHNtC =kdl/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----