tonic VS Generic-C-DataStructures

Yeah, I'd go with this too. I handle this in Tonic by doing a hoisting pass that just birngs all function definitions to the top of the AST. https://github.com/ryangjchandler/tonic/blob/main/src/passes/mod.rs

I'm getting https://github.com/ryangjchandler/tonic ready for Advent of Code. Hoping to have it ready to complete all challenges.

Hi, I graduated with Chemical engineering and left a dead end job late last year in oil sector. I kind of dabbled in programming on and off for the 7 years before that, learning bits and pieces of C, swift, iOS development, C++, machine learning, even algorithms and data structures; but nothing really “took off”. I used to mainly code simple engineering calculators. But there’s only so many engineering calculators the world needs and so since December last year I started studying CS “properly” - I did SICP and I learnt the basics of interpreters, assembly and compilers. I wanted to gain more experience with C before I did systems so I wrote generic data structures in C, even implemented a subset of Scheme in C .

Started making a generic data structures library in C for subsequently using them to implement a basic Scheme interpreter. link

So I was just lurking on this subreddit that I found a really good link for a get-down-to-business tutorial on C: Yale CPSC 223 notes, and I finally understood macros. I was going through Crafting Interpreters where the author was using Java's generic hash tables and I got this motivation for implementing my own generic symbol table implementation in C. I wrote macros for ordinary BSTs and Sedgewick's Left Leaning Red Black trees (translating from his recursive Java implementation). In the process, I also learnt (and used) Clang's Address Sanitizer and Leak detection features to remove memory leaks.