worse thing is that they are static sized tables and i do not know how achive flexibility in such static array approach,

soft code array size in data file.

read in array size from data file at program start. then malloc entire array at once at program start, and free at program end. set array size big enough to get the job done.

the speed of static arrays, and the variable size of malloc'd arrays.

But what with large c projects (such like windows/linux/gcc)

Are they internally static array based, what is their main containers for data? As I said if this is static arrays it is prone to overflows (mallocked to), static arrays with realloc? If this is something like linked list of structures it would be much slower...

c in game development (in relation to c++ usage) ? In big games?

i've been writing games in C since 1989 or so. I've done a number of large titles in C. my current project is in C (in a c++ compiler) and tips the scales at about 70,000 lines of code so far. a typical big game for me is about 100,000 lines of code.

I would say 100k-lines are medium size not big. I belive any big title commercial game shipped to shops is much larger (how much?)

My own home framework with some unfinished prototypes

of 2d games has 100k-lines by now. Big game is probably about 1M-lines and more

This has devolved into a language flame war.

if anyone needs any more gasoline to throw onto the fire I'm here all day

now i got your first comment on that^^

Computer instructions are roughly the same either way on the physical machine for similar C and C++ programs, but C++ offers a different way of organizing your data and methods. The computer, however, runs instructions one by one (for the most part) in programs, and does not concern itself with objects and the like. The computer just runs a sequence of instructions. C, however, is more closely based off of the linear organization and execution path that an actual computer follows. The underlying computer does handle functions and memory addresses and data types. The underlying computer does not have class/object manipulation instructions or private/public this and that.