If the type of a variable must be determined as runtime in C but the variable name is fixed and given, is there any way to reuse the code that involves the variable?
Actually I am asking about the C counterpart situation of runtime determine type for C++.
If possible please give some examples.
The C language does not have the object-oriented features that make it meaningful to ask about the run-time type of an object in C++.
You typically implement genericity in C by casting to and from void*
. Example: the C function qsort.
If your question is about determining at run-time what actual type a void*
pointer points to, that's impossible. The information is simply not stored at all by most compilers.