How to code C in a C++ program?
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As I am learning more about C++, and I have been seeing C code is much faster then C++ code in most things. How would I opt say the Drawing routines in C while having an OOP program. So in other words how would I code in C in a C++ source file? Or would I just write my functions in C and include the source files and call the functions from the C++ source file? Or do I call the C headers and write my code that way inthe C++ source file?
Thank you.
quote:Original post by DalikCould you please show us what code that might be?
As I am learning more about C++, and I have been seeing C code is much faster then C++ code in most things.
quote:How would I opt say the Drawing routines in C while having an OOP program.Drawing routines are in most (if not all) cases identical in C and C++
quote:So in other words how would I code in C in a C++ source file?Take a guess
quote:Or would I just write my functions in C and include the source files and call the functions from the C++ source file? Or do I call the C headers and write my code that way inthe C++ source file?That does not make sense to me.
Where do these concerns of your''s come from? Some "features" of C++ may make a program less efficient than a C program, because you don''t use these features in C. When it boils down to graphics, about the only thing to stay away from is virtual functions inside tight loops.
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and I have been seeing C code is much faster then C++ code in most things
Sorry to disappoint you, but you have seen wrong. The speed is not in the language, but in how you use it. If you can''t write fast enough code in C++, then you can''t write fast enough code in C either.
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I have to make this kinda fast but if you have CODE COMPELTE (a book)there are many many examples of benchies where C code is faster then C++ code. optimized of course and even unoptimized.
This was a waste of your time, since my concern wasnt which one is faster. I was asking how do you write C code in a C++ program. Or I could have asked how do you write C code in a pascal suorce? Or Ada in a java program. I know you can write C++ struct code and thats fine but again your using C++ headers and if your using C++ headers your using C++ code. So in other words would you just include C headers and you would get C code? Am I thinking right? Of do I have to write the code ina seperate source file and include the functions in the C++ program?
Thank you.
This was a waste of your time, since my concern wasnt which one is faster. I was asking how do you write C code in a C++ program. Or I could have asked how do you write C code in a pascal suorce? Or Ada in a java program. I know you can write C++ struct code and thats fine but again your using C++ headers and if your using C++ headers your using C++ code. So in other words would you just include C headers and you would get C code? Am I thinking right? Of do I have to write the code ina seperate source file and include the functions in the C++ program?
Thank you.
It''s not so much that C++ is slower than C, it''s more that object oriented is slower than procedural (and that includes using objects like file streams over the C methods). Although it''s usually almost as fast, except maybe on embedded systems (where speed really matters).
Overall if you are just learning C++ you are probably not programming anything that requires a lot of speed. Even if you used pure C/procedural, you probably wouldn''t notice an increase anyway.
Overall if you are just learning C++ you are probably not programming anything that requires a lot of speed. Even if you used pure C/procedural, you probably wouldn''t notice an increase anyway.
You''re asking this like they are 2 completely unrelated languages. Since C++ is a subset of C you can use them together with little or no problems. For example I prefer C style file i/o (FILE, fopen, etc) so in my classes that read/write to files use the C file i/o methods/structures.
Here''s a simple generic example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
using std::string;
class CPlayer
{
private:
FILE *fData;
int iStrength;
string sFilename;
public:
CPlayer();
~CPlayer();
void CreateGeneric(const char *filename);
};
void CPlayer::CreateGeneric(const char *filename)
{
iStrength=100;
sFilename=filename;
fData=fopen(sFilename.c_str(),"wb");
fwrite((void *)&iStrength,sizeof(int),1,fData);
fflush(fData);
fclose(fData);
}
Perfectly legal mix of C and C++ in a *.cpp file.
MSVC++ 6
DirectX 7
Here''s a simple generic example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
using std::string;
class CPlayer
{
private:
FILE *fData;
int iStrength;
string sFilename;
public:
CPlayer();
~CPlayer();
void CreateGeneric(const char *filename);
};
void CPlayer::CreateGeneric(const char *filename)
{
iStrength=100;
sFilename=filename;
fData=fopen(sFilename.c_str(),"wb");
fwrite((void *)&iStrength,sizeof(int),1,fData);
fflush(fData);
fclose(fData);
}
Perfectly legal mix of C and C++ in a *.cpp file.
MSVC++ 6
DirectX 7
quote:Original post by Dalik
I have to make this kinda fast but if you have CODE COMPELTE (a book)there are many many examples of benchies where C code is faster then C++ code. optimized of course and even unoptimized.
That book was written over 10 years ago. C++ compiler technology has advanced a lot in that time.
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-- Mark Twain
Well if you write C-legal code and functions in your C++ project, then it is my understanding that today''s C++ compilers will usually generate code that is as efficient as C-only compilers would generate, or at least so close as to be trivial.
If you''re not convinced that is the case, you could generate libraries using a C compiler and then link them into your C++ project.
Maybe the extern "C" declaration would make a performance difference too, but I kinda doubt it.
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If you''re not convinced that is the case, you could generate libraries using a C compiler and then link them into your C++ project.
Maybe the extern "C" declaration would make a performance difference too, but I kinda doubt it.
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Any C statement is also a legal C++ statement, so just compile everything with a C++ compiler and it should work out fine. Writing C code in a C++ program is not at all the same as writing C code in a pascal program. I think you're a little confused as to what C++ is. It's just C with some additional functionality. Also, it won't necessarily speed up your program. The main determining factor of your program's speed is the algorithms you use. I believe, and if someone has evidence to the contrary, let me know, that if you write a program in C and compile it with a C compiler, your machine code would be almost identical to the code produced by a C++ compiler. They didn't take out optimization techniques in C++ compilers that are present in C compilers.
[edited by - kdogg on March 16, 2003 2:32:03 PM]
[edited by - kdogg on March 16, 2003 2:32:03 PM]
quote:Dalik
As I am learning more about C++, and I have been seeing C code is much faster then C++ code in most things.
No.
quote:Original post by kdogg
Any C statement is also a legal C++ statement
No.
Anyway, here''s "the answer"
/* foo.h */#ifdef cplusplusextern "C"{#endifint my_c_function();#ifdef cplusplus}#endif /* foo.c */#include "foo.h"int my_c_function(){ return 0;} /* bar.cpp */#include "foo.h"// When you mix C and C++, main() MUST be in a C++ fileint main() { return my_c_function();} Anyway, since you''re likely to be using a combined C/C++ compiler, don''t expect the code compiled as C to outperform the code compiled as C++.
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