使用ANSI-C探索面向对象编程

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"本书旨在探讨如何使用C语言进行面向对象编程，揭示面向对象编程的核心理念和技术，以及它们如何帮助我们解决实际问题。" 在计算机编程领域，C语言因其高效、简洁和灵活而广受欢迎，但它本身并不直接支持面向对象编程（OOP）的概念。然而，通过一些技巧和设计模式，C程序员可以模拟面向对象特性，实现类、继承、封装和多态等概念。面向对象编程是一种编程范式，它的核心思想是将数据和操作这些数据的方法封装在一起，形成对象。这有助于提高代码的可重用性、模块化和可维护性。C++、Eiffel、Oberon-2和Smalltalk等语言是专门为支持面向对象编程设计的，但C语言的程序员也可以利用结构体、指针和函数等机制来实现类似的功能。本书将不会对面向对象编程进行无端的推崇或对传统的过程式编程方式进行批判。相反，它将通过ANSI-C标准，也就是纯C语言，来讲解面向对象编程的基本原理和技术。这包括： 1. **类的模拟**：使用结构体来表示对象的状态，定义指向函数的指针作为方法，从而实现类的概念。 2. **封装**：通过指针和函数来隐藏数据的实现细节，确保数据的安全性和保护。 3. **继承**：通过指针的类型转换和结构体的嵌套，实现类之间的继承关系。 4. **多态**：使用函数指针数组或者虚函数表来实现方法的动态绑定，实现多态性。书中会详细讨论如何在C语言中实现这些OOP特性，并通过实例展示它们如何帮助解决问题。面向对象编程不仅仅是关于新语言的特性，更重要的是它提供的编程思维方式和实践原则，这些原则可以应用于任何编程语言，包括C。此外，书中还会探讨代码重用的概念，虽然面向对象编程被广泛认为是实现跨项目代码重用的有效手段，但实际上，优秀的程序员一直都在使用子程序和库来实现这一目标。因此，学习如何在C语言中实现面向对象编程，将使开发者能够更好地利用已有的工具和经验，提升软件开发的效率和质量。 "C语言面向对象编程"这本书对于想要在C语言环境中实践面向对象编程的开发者来说，是一份宝贵的资源，它将帮助读者理解OOP的核心理念，并掌握在C语言中实现这些理念的具体技术。

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1 Abstract Data Types

— Information Hiding

apply() calls action() for each element in set and passes the rest of the argument

list. action() must not change set but it may return zero to terminate apply() early.

apply() returns true if all elements were processed.

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Dynamic Linkage

Generic Functions

2.1 Constructors and Destructors

Let us implement a simple string data type which we will later include into a set.

For a new string we allocate a dynamic buffer to hold the text. When the string is

deleted, we will have to reclaim the buffer.

new() is responsible for creating an object and delete() must reclaim the

resources it owns. new() knows what kind of object it is creating, because it has

the description of the object as a first parameter. Based on the parameter, we

could use a chain of if statements to handle each creation individually. The draw-

back is that new() would explicitly contain code for each data type which we sup-

port.

delete(), however, has a bigger problem. It, too, must behave differently based

on the type of the object being deleted: for a string the text buffer must be freed;

for an object as used in chapter 1 only the object itself has to be reclaimed; and a

set may have acquired various chunks of memory to store references to its ele-

ments.

We could give delete() another parameter: either our type descriptor or the

function to do the cleaning up, but this approach is clumsy and error-prone. There

is a much more general and elegant way: each object must know how to destroy

its own resources. Part of each and every object will be a pointer with which we

can locate a clean-up function. We call such a function a destructor for the object.

Now new() has a problem. It is responsible for creating objects and returning

pointers that can be passed to delete(), i.e., new() must install the destructor infor-

mation in each object. The obvious approach is to make a pointer to the destructor

part of the type descriptor which is passed to new(). So far we need something like

the following declarations:

struct type {

size_t size; /* size of an object */

void (* dtor) (void *); /* destructor */

};

struct String {

char * text; /* dynamic string */

const void * destroy; /* locate destructor */

};

struct Set {

... information ...

const void * destroy; /* locate destructor */

};

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2 Dynamic Linkage — Generic Functions

It looks like we have another problem: somebody needs to copy the destructor

pointer dtor from the type description to destroy in the new object and the copy

may have to be placed into a different position in each class of objects.

Initialization is part of the job of

new() and different types require different work

— new() may even require different arguments for different types:

new(Set); /* make a set */

new(String, "text"); /* make a string */

For initialization we use another type-specific function which we will call a

construc-

tor. Since constructor and destructor are type-specific and do not change, we pass

both to new() as part of the type description.

Note that constructor and destructor are not responsible for acquiring and

releasing the memory for an object itself — this is the job of new() and delete().

The constructor is called by new() and is only responsible for initializing the memory

area allocated by new(). For a string, this does involve acquiring another piece of

memory to store the text, but the space for struct String itself is allocated by

new(). This space is later freed by delete(). First, however, delete() calls the des-

tructor which essentially reverses the initialization done by the constructor before

delete() recycles the memory area allocated by new().

2.2 Methods, Messages, Classes and Objects

delete() must be able to locate the destructor without knowing what type of object

it has been given. Therefore, revising the declarations shown in section 2.1, we

must insist that the pointer used to locate the destructor must be at the beginning

of all objects passed to delete(), no matter what type they have.

What should this pointer point to? If all we have is the address of an object,

this pointer gives us access to type-specific information for the object, such as its

destructor function. It seems likely that we will soon invent other type-specific

functions such as a function to display objects, or our comparison function differ(),

or a function clone() to create a complete copy of an object. Therefore we will use

a pointer to a table of function pointers.

Looking closely, we realize that this table must be part of the type description

passed to new(), and the obvious solution is to let an object point to the entire type

description:

struct Class {

size_t size;

void * (* ctor) (void * self, va_list * app);

void * (* dtor) (void * self);

void * (* clone) (const void * self);

int (* differ) (const void * self, const void * b);

};

struct String {

const void * class; /* must be first */

char * text;

};

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2.3 Selectors, Dynamic Linkage, and Polymorphisms

struct Set {

const void * class; /* must be first */

...

};

Each of our objects starts with a pointer to its own type description, and through

this type description we can locate type-specific information for the object:

.size is

the length that new() allocates for the object; .ctor points to the constructor called

by new() which receives the allocated area and the rest of the argument list passed

to new() originally; .dtor points to the destructor called by delete() which receives

the object to be destroyed; .clone points to a copy function which receives the

object to be copied; and .differ points to a function which compares its object to

something else.

Looking down this list, we notice that every function works for the object

through which it will be selected. Only the constructor may have to cope with a

partially initialized memory area. We call these functions methods for the objects.

Calling a method is termed a message and we have marked the receiving object of

the message with the parameter name self. Since we are using plain C functions,

self need not be the first parameter.

Many objects will share the same type descriptor, i.e., they need the same

amount of memory and the same methods can be applied to them. We call all

objects with the same type descriptor a class; a single object is called an instance

of the class. So far a class, an abstract data type, and a set of possible values

together with operations, i.e., a data type, are pretty much the same.

An object is an instance of a class, i.e., it has a state represented by the

memory allocated by new() and the state is manipulated with the methods of its

class. Conventionally speaking, an object is a value of a particular data type.

2.3 Selectors, Dynamic Linkage, and Polymorphisms

Who does the messaging? The constructor is called by new() for a new memory

area which is mostly uninitialized:

void * new (const void * _class, ...)

{ const struct Class * class = _class;

void * p = calloc(1, class —> size);

assert(p);

* (const struct Class **) p = class;

if (class —> ctor)

{ va_list ap;

va_start(ap, _class);

p = class —> ctor(p, & ap);

va_end(ap);

}

return p;

}

The existence of the struct Class pointer at the beginning of an object is extremely

important. This is why we initialize this pointer already in new():

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2 Dynamic Linkage

— Generic Functions

•p

object

•

...........

class

size

ctor

dtor

clone

differ

struct Class

The type description class at the right is initialized at compile time. The object is

created at run time and the dashed pointers are then inserted. In the assignment

* (const struct Class **) p = class;

p points to the beginning of the new memory area for the object. We force a

conversion of p which treats the beginning of the object as a pointer to a struct

Class and set the argument class as the value of this pointer.

Next, if a constructor is part of the type description, we call it and return its

result as the result of new(), i.e., as the new object. Section 2.6 illustrates that a

clever constructor can, therefore, decide on its own memory management.

Note that only explicitly visible functions like new() can have a variable parame-

ter list. The list is accessed with a va_list variable ap which is initialized using the

macro va_start() from stdarg.h. new() can only pass the entire list to the construc-

tor; therefore, .ctor is declared with a va_list parameter and not with its own vari-

able parameter list. Since we might later want to share the original parameters

among several functions, we pass the address of ap to the constructor — when it

returns, ap will point to the first argument not consumed by the constructor.

delete() assumes that each object, i.e., each non-null pointer, points to a type

description. This is used to call the destructor if any exists. Here, self plays the

role of p in the previous picture. We force the conversion using a local variable cp

and very carefully thread our way from self to its description:

void delete (void * self)

{ const struct Class ** cp = self;

if (self && * cp && (* cp) —> dtor)

self = (* cp) —> dtor(self);

free(self);

}

The destructor, too, gets a chance to substitute its own pointer to be passed to

free() by delete(). If the constructor decides to cheat, the destructor thus has a

chance to correct things, see section 2.6. If an object does not want to be deleted,

its destructor would return a null pointer.

All other methods stored in the type description are called in a similar fashion.

In each case we have a single receiving object self and we need to route the

method call through its descriptor:

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