Re: Ambiguity with Smart Pointers (Boost or similar)
On 3 Jan, 12:11, number...@netscape.net wrote:
I've used Boost for this example; in fact we have our own pointer
class, for historic reasons.
#include "boost\shared_ptr.hpp"
// A heirarchy of classes
class G1 {};
class G2: public G1 {};
// A method which takes a shared pointer to the base class
void f(boost::shared_ptr<G1>) {};
// A method which takes a shared pointer to some other class
void f(boost::shared_ptr<int>) {};
void main()
{
// Call a method with a shared pointer to a derived class
f(boost::shared_ptr<G2>());
}
This fails, because the compiler is unable to decide which of the two
methods is meant. Of course, to a human, it's pretty obvious which
one is meant, but there doesn't seem to be enough information at the
time for the compiler to decide. In practice I have several hundred
functions, and 50 or so classes, to get confused among, so I don't
really want to take the obvious route [declare an
f(boost::shared_ptr<G2>) ]. Is there anything I can do to the pointer
class, or even to the class inheritance, that'll help the compiler
out?
Thx
I don't use boost::shared_ptr, but I am surprised if it cant
discriminate the above case, though maybe this is the result of an old
compiler, which may mean it cant use some facilities.
Hint! use some SFINAE, in combination with std::tr1 type_traits, e.g
is_base_of etc, but as I said a good smart pointer should easily
handle this case automatically.
regards
Andy Little
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