How to call function whose function call with arguments is in astring Options

[grbgooglefan]

Hello,
Can you please enlighten me if we can do this in C?

I would like to do something like this:
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typedef struct IOParams {
char *ioString;
long lionum;
double dionum;
float fionum;
int nionum;


} *pIOParams;

char *strFunctionCmd =
"myfunctionCall("iiisd",v_ioparams[0].nionum,v_ioparams[1].nionum,v_ioparam­
s[2].nionum,v_ioparams[3].ioString,v_ioparams[4].dionum)";


int retstat = call_function_in_string(strFunctionCmd );
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The vector size could vary, but that is not main issues here.
The problem is that even the variable number arguments function
cannot
be used here because for those functions also we need to have the
number & type of arguments fixed at compile time and the input
arguments passed to them are individual variables.

In the above case, variables are part of a vector having variable
size, so writing call for that also is difficult.

Is there any way to achieve this in C?
Any suggestions please?
Thanks in advance for help

 

[Mark Bluemel]

Hello,
Can you please enlighten me if we can do this in C?

I would like to do something like this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------------------------
typedef struct IOParams {
char *ioString;
long lionum;
double dionum;
float fionum;
int nionum;


} *pIOParams;

char *strFunctionCmd =
"myfunctionCall("iiisd",v_ioparams[0].nionum,v_ioparams[1].nionum,v_ioparam­
s[2].nionum,v_ioparams[3].ioString,v_ioparams[4].dionum)";


int retstat = call_function_in_string(strFunctionCmd );

You can't do this as such, as you should have worked out from reading
your C textbook...

The nearest approach is to use function pointers, perhaps in a lookup
table, to allow you to choose a function at runtime. Argument handling
in such a context is tricky as the number and type of arguments will be
fixed, but creative use of pointers to structures may help.

 

[Malcolm McLean]

The vector size could vary, but that is not main issues here.
The problem is that even the variable number arguments function
cannot be used here because for those functions also we need to have the
number & type of arguments fixed at compile time and the input
arguments passed to them are individual variables.

One of the very few things C won't let you do is build an argument list at
runtime. So to achieve what you want in C, effectively you have to write an
interpreter for another language.

 

[Kenneth Brody]

One of the very few things C won't let you do is build an argument list at
runtime. So to achieve what you want in C, effectively you have to write an
interpreter for another language.

Well, it is possible to pass such things by creating a struct of
a type and a union of all possible parameter types, and pass a
pointer to an array of this struct (along with a parameter count).
Think of argc/argv, where argv is a "MyParam_t *" rather than a
"char **".

Of course, the called function needs to be written to takes its
arguments in such a manner, so you are correct that this cannot
be done in the general sense.

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[Kenny McCormack]

One of the very few things C won't let you do is build an argument list at
runtime. So to achieve what you want in C, effectively you have to write an
interpreter for another language.

Not in standard C, that is true.

OP should, of course, google for "avcall".