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Emulating public and private in C structs

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-15 11:30

Consider:
foo.h:
struct Foo {
        int public_1;
        int public_2;
}
struct Foo * create_Foo ();
void bar_Foo (struct Foo*);
/* etc */

foo.c:
#include "foo.h"
struct Foo_private {
        struct Foo foo; /* ??? */
        int private_1;
        int private_2;
}
struct Foo * create_Foo (void) {
        return malloc (sizeof(Foo_private));
}
void bar_Foo (struct Foo *foo) {
        Foo_private *foo_p = (Foo_private*) foo; /* ??? */
        /* do whatever with foo_p->private_1 and foo_p->private_2 */
}

Is there anything wrong with this? I'm dubious about the lines commented with ???. I don't want to write getters and setters for the 'public' stuff.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-15 21:24

>>11
I think that misses the entire point of private variables. They are private because we don't trust anyone but ourselves to access them. If you "trust" other modules enough to use this method (you aren't actually hiding anything- just testing that it can be hidden in future through some means) the entire exercise is pointless.

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