• @thebestaquaman
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    32 years ago

    personally I prefer including the file

    prog_constants.h

    int program_state; // Keeps track of stuff

    in all translation units. That way I can easily keep track of what different parts of the program are doing at any time by modifying a single variable.

    • @marcos
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      1 year ago

      That’s a nice idea. You can always put a pointer there if you need more state.

      It just doesn’t work on machines with different int and pointer sizes. On the benefit of interoperability, I suggest you make it a (void*). So one function can set it program_state = (void*)'K'; while some other one can set it program_state ={1, 32, 768}; and yet another can do program_state = "I'm in the middle of something here!";.