Re: Variadic arguments in constructor of templated class

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:45:24 -0500
Message-ID:
<fhf53558fomva9kopg7cn67nb786b355vi@4ax.com>
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:11:10 -0700 (PDT), "John H."
<oldman_fromthec@yahoo.com> wrote:

Using the following code on VS 6.0 and 2008:

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdarg>

template <class T, int SIZE>
class Point
{
 public:
   Point(T const & first, ...)
   {
       if(SIZE == 0)
       {
           return;
       }

       vals[0] = first;

       va_list list;
       va_start(list, first);
       for(int i=1; i<SIZE; i++)
       {
           T const t = va_arg(list, T);
           vals[i] = t;
       }
       va_end(list);
   }

   void print()
   {
       printf("(");
       for(int i=0; i<SIZE; i++)
       {
           printf("%d", (int) vals[i]);
           if(i+1<SIZE)
           {
               printf(", ");
           }
       }
       printf(")");
   }

 private:
   T vals[SIZE];
};

int main()
{
   Point<int,3> p1(4, 2, -1);
   p1.print();
   return 0;
}

I get output (debug mode, although similar unexpected behavior in
release):
(4, 4, 4)

However using a newish version of g++ I get the expected (4, 2, -1).

Is this a bug in VC++ or am I doing something wrong?


ISTR it is undefined for the parameter just before the ellipsis to have
reference type.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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