A good C equivalent of STL vector?

Question

I\'ve noticed that at several places in our code base we use dynamically expanding arrays, i.e. a base array coupled with an element counter and a \"max elements\" value.

Answer 1

Personally, I prefer "Gena" library. It closely resembles stl::vector in pure C89.

It is comfortable to use because you can:

• Access vector elements just like plain C arrays: vec[k][j];
• Have multi-dimentional arrays;
• Copy vectors;
• Instantiate necessary vector types once in a separate module, instead of doing this every time you needed a vector;
• You can choose how to pass values into a vector and how to return them from it: by value or by pointer.

You can check it out here:

https://github.com/cher-nov/Gena