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		rossy on Feb 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C C99 doesn't support function overloading. I guess that style is used by everything that wants to expose a C compatible API. Come to think of it, it might be possible to do that with C11 _Generic.

antirez on Feb 6, 2014 [–]

And... SDS and plain strings are both char pointers so even with _Generic it is probably not possible to do that.

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