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Nov 18th, 2009

Re: Dynamic include in C

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"The #include thing only works on compile time. Not run time" - so you mean the binary will have all the contents of the the included file???

Yes. Its not really all that big a deal since the program has reserved space for the data anyway. Even though you have the arrays declared in if statements the compiler will allocate memory for all of them at the same time somewhere in global memory (since they are declared static). The if statements just limit the scope of those arrays.

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Nov 18th, 2009

Re: Dynamic include in C

This thread is stupid.
ahamed101 -- save the data in files and fopen them according to the input parameters of the program.
OR do what you were doing with the #include and just live with code reuse.

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Re: Dynamic include in C

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This thread is stupid.
ahamed101 -- save the data in files and fopen them according to the input parameters of the program.
OR do what you were doing with the #include and just live with code reuse.

I believe no questions are stupid. Please refrain from making such comments in the future.

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Re: Dynamic include in C

>> I believe no questions are stupid.
That's naive. And I didn't say the questions was stupid. I said the thread was stupid.

How many times does the same thing have to be said before it's registered?

Gerard -- "The include statement is processed by the preprocessor so it can't be dynamically created in the executable..."
Dave Sinkula -- "The #include directive is like a copy-and-paste that happens at compile time. You can't do it at runtime."
AD -- "No because the #inc lude directive is processed at compile time, not runtime."
Me (Ironically) >> The #include thing only works on compile time. Not run time.

Then you finally say -- "The #include thing only works on compile time. Not run time" - so you mean the binary will have all the contents of the the included file???

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Re: Dynamic include in C

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>> I believe no questions are stupid.
That's naive. And I didn't say the questions was stupid. I said the thread was stupid.

How many times does the same thing have to be said before it's registered?

Gerard -- "The include statement is processed by the preprocessor so it can't be dynamically created in the executable..."
Dave Sinkula -- "The #include directive is like a copy-and-paste that happens at compile time. You can't do it at runtime."
AD -- "No because the #inc lude directive is processed at compile time, not runtime."
Me (Ironically) >> The #include thing only works on compile time. Not run time.

Then you finally say -- "The #include thing only works on compile time. Not run time" - so you mean the binary will have all the contents of the the included file???

Its undeniable, the point you make.

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