Pseudo-generics in C

You can do something like this in a header file:

//
// generic.h
//

#define TOKENPASTE(x, y) x ## y

#define GET_MINIMUM(T) TOKENPASTE(get_minimum_, T)

TYPE GET_MINIMUM (TYPE) (TYPE * nums, size_t len){
    TYPE min = nums[0];

    for (size_t i = 1; i < len; i++) {
        if (nums[i] < min) {
            min = nums[i];
        }
    }

    return min;
}

and then #include it in a source file for each required type, e.g.:

//
// generic.c
//

#define TYPE int
#include "generic.h"
#undef TYPE

#define TYPE float
#include "generic.h"
#undef TYPE

You can test this by running it through the preprocessor:

$ gcc -E generic.c 

int get_minimum_int (int * nums, size_t len){
    int min = nums[0];

    for (size_t i = 1; i < len; i++) {
        if (nums[i] < min) {
            min = nums[i];
        }
    }

    return min;
}

float get_minimum_float (float * nums, size_t len){
    float min = nums[0];

    for (size_t i = 1; i < len; i++) {
        if (nums[i] < min) {
            min = nums[i];
        }
    }

    return min;
}