Re: offset-based hash table for ASCII data
Rex Mottram wrote:
I could of course write up my own index-based ADT in C, but would much
prefer not to. There are a number of free ADT packages out there - I'm
currently using one called Kazlib which is very nice and I have notes on
6-10 others which also look good. But all these use pointers, with the
cited problem.
Ah ha. And specifically you want to serialize and deserialize your
ADTs. Between C and Java. Nothing like picking the implementation
first then going looking for solutions. ;)
What you're asking for is called pointer swizzling, btw, and the general
case seems to be very hard, which may be why you aren't find any libraries.
And no I don't know any Java packages for that. Java programmers seem
to prefer general solutions that always work (XML) to light weight
solutions that may impose some restrictions. Sorry about that.
If you find anything interesting, let us know.
You might try some custom de-/serialization on the Java side, so you can
control the format, and produce something easier to parse in C. Just a
thought.
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