general_type_linked_list_library

General-Type Linked List Library written in C

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How To Use:

In order to integrate this library in your code, you must perform the following steps:

1. Copy the library into the folder where your project will live.

2. At the top of your main.c file, BEFORE the #include "full_general_type_list_lib.c" preprocessor directive, you must specify these two #define directives:

#define TYPE    /* your chosen type goes here */
#define FORMAT  /* the printf and scanf format */

3. After you wrote these two directives, you can now put #include "full_general_type_list_lib.c" and take full advantage of all the functions inside of it.

For Example:

• Suppose we want to operate with an integer list. First, we write the two #define directives, which in this case look like this:

#define TYPE int
#define FORMAT "%d"

• Now the library will behave like it was written natively for integer lists.
• To further clarify, the #define FORMAT "%d" directive is needed so that the printf and scanf functions behave correctly when either writing or reading a value, since both need a format specifier that tells the compiler that the value will be of that specific type.

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Supported Data Types:

Currently, the library is unable to work with structured data types but only with primitives, so the supported ones are:

• char
• short int
• int
• long int
• float
• double
• long double

(NOTE: I've written the library in C89 ANSI, thus bool and others aren't included but should still work for other C versions at the time of writing, as long as those data types aren't defined through a struct)

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Future Development:

• I'm planning to extend the flexibility of this library, firstly by making it capable of working with structured data types, then I was also planning on adding dynamic types (such as string), so that you could have dynamic lists that hold dynamic size values.
• Any suggestion or contribution will be taken into consideration, regardless of its relevance.

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