When moving into generic types and metaprogramming in C, your only real choice is macros. I've been down that path. It just never seems to work out very well, a

When moving into generic types and metaprogramming in C, your only real choice is macros. I've been down that path. It just never seems to work out very well, and the results were always unsatisfying. At some point, it becomes worthwhile to graduate to a more powerful language that still retains all the low level capability, like DasBetterC.