Re: Conversion of pointer-to-member

From:
"int2str@gmail.com" <int2str@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:31:20 CST
Message-ID:
<1185511491.017873.194030@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 26, 9:20 pm, Frank Birbacher <bloodymir.c...@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi!
I wonder why pointers to members seem so limited to me. I tried to do
the following:

struct Base {
        virtual void doBar() =0;

};

template<typename T>
struct Dev : Base {
        void doBar();

};

struct Test {
        Dev<int> i;
        Dev<float> f;

};

int main() {
        Base Test::* const pt = &Test::i; //ERROR here


I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. "Test" is a definition,
not an actual object. You can't get a pointer to a member of a class
if there is no object of that type.

        Test t;
        (t.*pt).dobar();

}

It results in an error: a value of type "Dev<int> Test::*" cannot be
used to initialize an entity of type "Base Test::*const".

Well, sure there is an Instance of Base in every object of type Test.
Can I have a pointer-to-member to it?

Frank


You can get a pointer to the member if you define the pointer to an
actual object.

Here's your program modified to compile. Without knowing your actual
intend, I can't be sure that's what you want however.

struct Base {
        virtual void doBar() =0;
};

template<typename T>
struct Dev : Base {
        void doBar() {};
};

struct Test {
        Dev<int> i;
};

int main() {
        Test t;
        Base* pt = &t.i;
        pt->doBar();
}

Cheers,
    Andre

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