Handy constructs.cpp

// Useful for sorting things - e.g   TrivialCmp<int>(a, b)
template<typename T>
inline int32_t TrivialCmp(const T a, const T b)
{
        if (a < b)
                return -1;
        else if (a > b)
                return 1;
        else
                return 0;
}

// For passing strings back and forth
// You may also want to define e.g strwithlen8_t, strwithlen16_t (where size denotes type of length)
// as a standard way to reference strings with length
#define STRLEN(p) (sizeof(p)-1)
#define STRWITHLEN(p) (p), (sizeof(p)-1)