Writing Scalabe Software in C++

From:
"Skybuck Flying" <spam@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.math,comp.arch,comp.lang.c++,sci.electronics.design
Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:02:31 +0200
Message-ID:
<fb3u9f$k41$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>
Hello,

This morning I had an idea how to write Scalable Software in general.
Unfortunately with Delphi 2007 it can't be done because it does not support
operating overloading for classes, or record inheritance (records do have
operator overloading)

The idea is to write a generic integer class with derived integer classess
for 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit and 64 bit emulated.

Then at runtime the computer program can determine which derived integer
class is needed to perform the necessary calculations.

The necessary integer class is instantiated and assigned to a generic
integer class variable/reference and the generic references/variables are
used to write the actual code that performs the calculations.

Below is a demonstration program, it's not yet completely compiling, but
it's getting close.

// TestWritingScalableSoftware.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console
application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"

class TSkybuckGenericInteger
{

};
class TSkybuckInt32 : public TSkybuckGenericInteger
{
    private:
        int mInteger;

    public:

        // constructor with initializer parameter
        TSkybuckInt32( int ParaValue );

        // add operator overloader
        TSkybuckInt32& operator+( const TSkybuckInt32& ParaSkybuckInt32 );

        void Display();
};

class TSkybuckInt64 : TSkybuckGenericInteger
{
    private:
        long long mInteger;

    public:
        // constructor with initializer parameter
        TSkybuckInt64( long long ParaValue );

        // add operator overloader
        TSkybuckInt64& operator+( const TSkybuckInt64& ParaSkybuckInt64 );

        void Display();
};

//
// TSkybuckInt32

// constructor
TSkybuckInt32::TSkybuckInt32( int ParaValue )
{
    mInteger = ParaValue;
}

// add operator overloader
TSkybuckInt32& TSkybuckInt32::operator+ ( const TSkybuckInt32&
ParaSkybuckInt32 )
{
    mInteger = mInteger + ParaSkybuckInt32.mInteger;
    return *this;
}

void TSkybuckInt32::Display()
{
printf( "%d \n", mInteger );
}

//
// TSkybuckInt64
//
// constructor
TSkybuckInt64::TSkybuckInt64( long long ParaValue )
{
    mInteger = ParaValue;
}

// add operator overloader
TSkybuckInt64& TSkybuckInt64::operator+ ( const TSkybuckInt64&
ParaSkybuckInt64 )
{
    mInteger = mInteger + ParaSkybuckInt64.mInteger;
    return *this;
}

void TSkybuckInt64::Display()
{
    printf( "%lu \n", mInteger );
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    long long FileSize;
    long long MaxFileSize32bit;

    // must write code like this to use constructor ? can't just declare
a,b,c ?
    TSkybuckInt32 A32 = TSkybuckInt32( 30 );
    TSkybuckInt32 B32 = TSkybuckInt32( 70 );
    TSkybuckInt32 C32 = TSkybuckInt32( 0 );
    C32 = A32 + B32;
    C32.Display();

    TSkybuckInt64 A64 = TSkybuckInt64( 30 );
    TSkybuckInt64 B64 = TSkybuckInt64( 70 );
    TSkybuckInt64 C64 = TSkybuckInt64( 0 );
    C64 = A64 + B64;
    C64.Display();

    FileSize = 1024; // kilobyte
    FileSize = FileSize * 1024; // megabyte
    FileSize = FileSize * 1024; // gigabyte
    FileSize = FileSize * 1024; // terrabyte

    MaxFileSize32bit = 1024; // kilobyte
    MaxFileSize32bit = MaxFileSize32bit * 1024; // megabyte
    MaxFileSize32bit = MaxFileSize32bit * 1024; // gigabyte
    MaxFileSize32bit = MaxFileSize32bit * 4; // 4 gigabyte
    if (FileSize < MaxFileSize32bit)
    {
        TSkybuckGenericInteger AGeneric = TSkybuckInt32( 30 );
        TSkybuckGenericInteger BGeneric = TSkybuckInt32( 70 );
        TSkybuckGenericInteger CGeneric = TSkybuckInt32( 0 );
    } else
    {
        TSkybuckGenericInteger AGeneric = TSkybuckInt64( 30 );
        TSkybuckGenericInteger BGeneric = TSkybuckInt64( 70 );
        TSkybuckGenericInteger CGeneric = TSkybuckInt64( 0 );
    }

    CGeneric = AGeneric + BGeneric;
    CGeneric.Display();

    while (1)
    {
    }

    return 0;
}

Probably minor compile issue's remain:

Error 1 error C2243: 'type cast' : conversion from 'TSkybuckInt64 *__w64 '
to 'const TSkybuckGenericInteger &' exists, but is inaccessible
y:\cpp\tests\test writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
152

Error 2 error C2243: 'type cast' : conversion from 'TSkybuckInt64 *__w64 '
to 'const TSkybuckGenericInteger &' exists, but is inaccessible
y:\cpp\tests\test writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
153

Error 3 error C2243: 'type cast' : conversion from 'TSkybuckInt64 *__w64 '
to 'const TSkybuckGenericInteger &' exists, but is inaccessible
y:\cpp\tests\test writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
154

Error 4 error C2065: 'CGeneric' : undeclared identifier y:\cpp\tests\test
writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
157

Error 5 error C2065: 'AGeneric' : undeclared identifier y:\cpp\tests\test
writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
157

Error 6 error C2065: 'BGeneric' : undeclared identifier y:\cpp\tests\test
writing scalable software generic math\version
0.01\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware\testwritingscalablesoftware.cpp
157

How to solve the remaining issue's ?

Bye,
  Skybuck.

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