libmyc

Just a simple C library

This was a junk drawer of C functionality that wasn't straightforward (in some way), or wasn't widely available, or was used in more than a few of my "script"-y C programs.

This is very old code of mine. (As I write this README, it's been 5 years since I committed it to source control, which means some of it is probably a decade old)

• Some of it's kind of fun:

  • Perl-style "die" and "warn" functions (vararg handling)

• Some of it's kind of useful:

  • The array stuff was for my photomosaic tool.
  • lots of malloc variants with bail-out on failure
  • gen_counter generates a counter with a bunch of options

• Some of it is really useful:

  • NOW = current time as a double
  • starts_with and ends_with (What kind of stdlib omits these?)

• Some of it's horribly dumb:

  • auto_remake function shells out to make if the source file is updated
    • was useful while developing my photomosaic tool
    • ...because I'd not heard of much better ways of doing that