Re: I'm a newbie. Is this code ugly?

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I'm using a class which can sinksort an array of it's own objects and
an example T class, which can have names and stuff...
I was in doubt about what to do about nearly any line, so I would love
any of your recommendations...


what about this?


Horrible.

This code works, after a fashion, because those strings are all literals.
What
would happen if you were reading values from a file?


no problem, i make local copy


Still horrible.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#define R return


Using macros to represent language keywords is inexcusable obfuscation. Are
you J*ff R*lf?

using namespace std;

char* faiMemCopia(char* v)


Why are you (badly) reinventing strcpy() ?

{int i, n;
char *p;
if(v==0) R 0;
n=strlen(v);
if(n<=0) R 0;


Why? There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a zero-length string.


yes here i would say "if(n<0) R 0;"


And under what circumstances would strlen() ever return a negative value?


it seems strlen() here returned one unsigned type: size_t
here size_t is "unsigned int" of 32 bit but this means
strlen can return 0xF0000000 that is a negative number
seen it like int; and for me that negative number is not ok

[...]

int alloca(char *num, char *key, char *surname)


This sets up the class invariant. Put it in a constructor.


here i have one array of T* ;
the problem is always the same:
i have a class Y
Y *p;
p is class pointer
than i want build for p the Y class
than i don't know how use constructor-destructor for Y for that object

what i can do is
p=(Y*) malloc(sizeof(Y));
p->inizialize();
and
for deallocate it
p->deinizialize();
free(p);


The C++ way to do that is:

p = new Y;
/* ... */

delete p;

and the constructor and destructor of Y will be called without any work on
your part.


thank you, i did not think about that, thanks

why the default operator delete
has one argument of type size_t?

void operator delete(void*, size_t);

there is something hidden in the call delete?
for example here
T a(1,1,1);
T *p=new T(a)
....
delete p;

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#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#define R return
using namespace std;

char* faiMemCopia(char* v)
{int i, n;
 char *p;
 if(v==0) R 0;
 n=strlen(v);
 if(n<0) R 0;
 p=(char*) malloc(n+1);
 if(p==0) R 0;
 for(i=0; i<n; ++i)
       p[i]=v[i];
 p[i]=0;
 R p;
}

class Person{
public:
 char *num_, *surname_;
 char *key_;

 Person(){num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;}

 void InitializePointer(char *num, char *key, char *surname)
 {num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;
  num_=faiMemCopia(num);
  if(num_==0) {la:
                cerr << "Need more memory\n";
                exit(0);
               }
  surname_=faiMemCopia(surname);
  if(surname==0)
       {la0:
        free(num_); num_=0;
        goto la;
       }
  key_=faiMemCopia(key);
  if(key_==0){free(surname_); surname_=0;
              goto la0;
             }
 }

 void InitializePointer(Person& a)
 {InitializePointer(a.num_, a.key_, a.surname_);}

 Person(char *num, char *key, char *surname)
 {this->InitializePointer(num, key, surname);}

 Person(Person& a){this->InitializePointer(a);}

void FreePointer(void)
  {free(num_); free(key_); free(surname_);
   num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;
  }

 ~Person(){this->FreePointer();}

Person& operator=(Person& r)
{if(&r!=this)
    {free(num_); free(key_); free(surname_);
     this->InitializePointer(r);
    }
 R *this;
}

int cmp1(Person& a, Person& b){R strcmp(a.key_,b.key_);}

};

template <class T> class RosList{
public:
T** v;
int n;
int sz;

// these function are not called
  void* operator new(size_t sz){R malloc(sz);}
  void operator delete(void* p){free(p);}

  RosList(){v=0; n=0; sz=0;}

  int add(T& a)
  {if(sz<=n){T **p;
             p=(T**)realloc(v, (n+128)*sizeof(T*));
             if(p==0) R 0;
             sz=n+128;
             v =p;
            }
   v[n] = new T(a);
   if(v[n]==0) R 0;
   ++n;
   R 1;
  }

void sort(int (*cmp)(T& a, T& b))
{int i, hit=1, len=n;
 T *temp;

  while(len>1&&hit)
     {len--;
      hit=0;
      for(i=0; i<len; ++i)
        if(cmp( *(v[i]), *(v[i+1]) )>0)
            {temp=v[i]; v[i]=v[i+1]; v[i+1]=temp; hit=1;}
     }
}

int sort(int i1, int i2, int (*cmp)(T& a, T& b))
{int i, hit=1, len;
 T *temp;

 if(i1==i2&&i2<n&&i2>=0) R 1;
 if(i1>=i2) R 0;
 if(i2> n) R 0;
 len=i2-i1;

 while(len>1&&hit)
     {len--;
      hit=0;
      for(i=i1; i<len; ++i)
        if(cmp( *(v[i]), *(v[i+1]) )>0)
            {temp=v[i]; v[i]=v[i+1]; v[i+1]=temp; hit=1;}
     }
 R 1;
}

 ~RosList(){int i=n;
            for(--i; i>=0; --i)
                    delete v[i];
            free(v);
           }

 T& operator[](int i)
 {static T no;
  if(i<0||i>=n)
    {cout << "\n\aIndice fuori dei limiti\n"; R no;}
  R *(v[i]);
 }

};

int cmp(Person& a, Person& b){R strcmp(a.key_,b.key_);}
int cmp2(Person& a, Person& b){R strcmp(a.num_,b.num_);}

int main(void)
{int i;
 RosList<Person> a;
 i=1;
 i*=a.add(Person("a","Mann","Thomas"));
 i*=a.add(Person("b","Satie","Erik"));
 i*=a.add(Person("c","Goldfarb","Sarah"));
 i*=a.add(Person("d","Ravel","Maurice"));
 i*=a.add(Person("e","Hideyuki","Tanaka"));
 i*=a.add(Person("f","Twain","Mark"));
 if(i==0) {cout << "Memory error\n"; R 0;}

 a.sort(cmp);
 for(i=0; i<a.n; ++i)
    cout <<a.v[i]->surname_<<"\t"<<a.v[i]->key_<<"\n";
 cout << "------------------------\n";
 a.sort(0, a.n, cmp2);
 for(i=0; i<a.n; ++i)
    cout <<a[i].surname_<<"\t"<<a[i].key_<<"\n";

 R 0;
}
-------------
Sarah Goldfarb
Tanaka Hideyuki
Thomas Mann
Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie
Mark Twain
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Thomas Mann
Erik Satie
Sarah Goldfarb
Maurice Ravel
Tanaka Hideyuki
Mark Twain

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