CSL

CSL or CeSsentiaLs is a collection of headers that I find nice to have in my daily C coding routine.

Currently, this collection includes a simple header-only vector implementation - pvector, and some useful C header files located in the cthings directory.

pvector

pvector is a header-only implementation of a dynamically-resizable array, which is, in C++ terms, called a vector.

To create a vector, simply type:

int   *integer_vector = csl_pvector (int); /* this will create a vector storage for integers */
void **pointer_vector = csl_pvector (void *); /* this will create a vector storage for pointers */

Other functions can be found in the pvector/pvector.h header file.

cthings

cthings directory is comprised of the miscellaneous, independent from each other header files you can find useful for coding in C. As for now this includes:

• platform.h - a header file to determine the host architecture, OS and the compiler used to assemble the program.
• standard.h - a header file to determine the compiler's C/C++ standard.
• attribute.h - a header file to aid cross-compiler attribute problem.
• begin_code.h - a header file to help enclose C code in, while saving compatibility with C++ (extern "C").
• c89.h - a header file for c99 support in older C standards.
• die.h - a simple die () and vdie () implementation.
• itoa.h - a simple POSIX itoa implementation.
• hash.h - a collection of string hash functions.
• strings.h - a header file to add some functions from POSIX's strings.h header file to non-POSIX platforms (str[n]casecmp (), str[n]dup () functions specifically).
• getline.h - a slightly modified version of POSIX's getdelim () and getline () functions.

Installing

All sources in csl library are headers. So installing them is simply a matter of:

$ cmake .
# make install