Re: Help with C->C# Port

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm quickly realizing that a rewrite is probably
the best approach. After looking more closely, I know that generics along
with .net system types will probably solve most of my issues.

"Mehdi" <vioccc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 May 2006 10:43:31 -0500, farc wrote:

I am in the process of converting an old C application to C#. The
application is loaded with pointers (as most are, I guess). How would I
best
represent the following structures in C#?

You are probably aware of this but in case you're not: the difference
between C and C# is much greater than just a syntax difference. C is a
procedural language while C# is a OO language. C# programs are therefore
organized and designed in a completely different way than C programs are
and porting form C to C# usually involves much more than just changing the
syntax. Instead of simply doing a litteral port, It's usually better to
understand what the program does and then design a C# program that does
the
same thing but using an OO approach.

typedef char ** mytypedef;

In C:
- char is a character. In C#, you would use the Char structure to store a
character. Note that in C, char can actually be used to store any 1 byte
value while in C#, Char represents a unicode (2 bytes) character and only
that.
- *char is a pointer to character. This is usually used to point to a null
terminated character string. For this, you would use a string in C#
- **char is a pointer to a pointer of char. This can for instance be used
to pass a string as a parameter to a function that might return a pointer
to another string via the same parameter. In C#, you would either pass a
string as a ref parameter or simply return a new string as the return
value
of the function.
- typedef char ** mytypedef; defines mytypedef as being a **char. Any
variable declared as being a mytypedef would therefore be a **char
variable. In other words, mytypedef really is an alias for **char. In C#,
there is no typedef. Instead, there is the much safer and more powerfull
concept of classes.

typedef struct _mystructure {
struct _mystructure *left, *right;
} mystructure;

There are struct in C# too. However, my knowledge of the C syntax shows
its
limits here and i can't really say what this struct declaration actually
does.


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