How to achieve function overloading in C?

Question

Is there any way to achieve function overloading in C? I am looking at simple functions to be overloaded like

foo (int a)  
foo (char b)  
foo (float c , i         


        

Answer 1

If your compiler is gcc and you don't mind doing hand updates every time you add a new overload you can do some macro magic and get the result you want in terms of callers, it's not as nice to write... but it's possible

look at __builtin_types_compatible_p, then use it to define a macro that does something like

#define foo(a) \
((__builtin_types_compatible_p(int, a)?foo(a):(__builtin_types_compatible_p(float, a)?foo(a):)

but yea nasty, just don't

EDIT: C1X will be getting support for type generic expressions they look like this:

#define cbrt(X) _Generic((X), long double: cbrtl, \
                              default: cbrt, \
                              float: cbrtf)(X)