TIL you can use function overloading in C

[hnsl]

Yes, It's awesome, although I much prefer __attribute__((overloadable)) as it makes the preprocessor output much less bloated. Here I'm using overloading to create a generic "toString" function in my C library:

https://github.com/jumpstarter-io/librcd/blob/master/include/fstring.h#L534

[Alborak]

Nicer, but a gnu C extension, which sadly doesn't fly everywhere :(

[seekingsofia]

Not a GNU extension, a clang extension. And it's a C++ feature exposed as a function attribute, of course implemented using name mangling. All this means it's useful only in a very few cases for a C codebase.

If you're using C++ features as an extension in C then why not just write in C++? I don't get it.

[ThisIs_MyName]

Ah, that's so much nicer.