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lemiant

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Operator overloading for a struct

Is it possible to do operator overloading in RobotC? For example we have a struct:


	Code: typedef struct{ float x; float y; float z; } vector;

And we would like to be able to run:


	Code: vector a, b; a.x = 1; a.y = 2; a.z = 3; b=a;

And have all the x,y,z values copied over. Is this possible in RobotC?

Thanks in advance,

- Alex

Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:47 pm

Ernest3.14

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Re: Operator overloading for a struct

No, I don't think this is possible in RobotC (or ANSI C, even).

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Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:52 pm

MHTS

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Re: Operator overloading for a struct

lemiant wrote:

Is it possible to do operator overloading in RobotC? For example we have a struct:


	Code: typedef struct{ float x; float y; float z; } vector;

And we would like to be able to run:


	Code: vector a, b; a.x = 1; a.y = 2; a.z = 3; b=a;

And have all the x,y,z values copied over. Is this possible in RobotC?

Thanks in advance,

- Alex

That's not operator overloading. That's just structure assignment. This should be allowed. Since you already have the code written, why can't you just compile the code and check it out. To verify if it indeed works, add some nxtDisplayText statements in the code such as:


	Code: typedef struct { float x; float y; float z; } vector; task main() { vector a, b; a.x = 1.0; a.y = 2.0; a.z = 3.0; b = a; nxtDisplayTextLine(1, "b.x=%f", b.x); nxtDisplayTextLine(2, "b.y=%f", b.y); nxtDisplayTextLine(3, "b.z=%f", b.z); while (true) { wait1Msec(100); } }

Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:17 am

lemiant

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Re: Operator overloading for a struct

Good idea with the testing. It seems that structs can be passed as parameters to functions, but you cannot do a=b as I was hoping. Does that make sense?

Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:08 pm

MHTS

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Re: Operator overloading for a struct

Hmm, you are right. It looks like structure assignment doesn't work. Then try this:


	Code: typedef struct { float x; float y; float z; } vector; task main() { vector a, b; a.x = 1.0; a.y = 1.0; a.z = 1.0; while (true) { a.x += 1.0; a.y += 1.0; a.z += 1.0; memcpy(&b, &a, sizeof(a)); // b = a; nxtDisplayTextLine(1, "b.x=%f", b.x); nxtDisplayTextLine(2, "b.y=%f", b.y); nxtDisplayTextLine(3, "b.z=%f", b.z); wait1Msec(100); } }

Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:51 pm

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