Re: Get rid of inherited enum in partial specialization

From:
mathieu <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:08:29 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<23045641-c1aa-48d5-9fc4-bcabfe5def56@f10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 31, 1:46 pm, mathieu <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 31, 12:58 pm, Ron Natalie <r...@spamcop.net> wrote:

mathieu wrote:

Hello,

  I have the following code:

template<uint16_t Group, uint16_t Element, int TVR, int TVM>
class Attribute
{
public:
  enum { VMType = VMToLength<TVM>::Length };
};

template<uint16_t Group, uint16_t Element, int TVR>
class Attribute<Group,Element,TVR,VM::VM1_n>
{
};

what is the best way to get rid of that enum (VMToLength<VM1_n> is not
a valid instantiation) ?

Thanks
-Mathieu


Your question makes no sense. You haven't shown enough of the problem.
There's no inheritance here. What on earth are VM and VMToLength?


And you are very right ! My code was actually:

template<uint16_t Group, uint16_t Element, int TVR =
Default<Group,Element>::ValueTVR , int TVM =
Default<Group,Element>::ValueTVM>
class Attribute { ... };

but because Default<Group,Element>::ValueTVM was expanding to
VM::VM1_n I was expecting the compiler to pick the partially
specialized class :)


And to humilate myself a little more, the compiler is actually picking
the right template class... the error was again in between the chair
and the monitor: Default<Group,Element>::ValueTVM was *not* expanding
to VM::VM1_n

The following code, actually show the proper behavior (*)

Again sorry for the noise
-Mathieu...being more and more amazed at C++ template class

(*)
#include <iostream>

template <int I> struct VMToLength;

typedef enum {
  VR1 = 1,
  VR2,
} VRType;

typedef enum {
  VM1 = 1,
  VM2,
  VM_N,
} VMType;

template <> struct VMToLength<VM1> { enum { Length = 1 }; };
template <> struct VMToLength<VM2> { enum { Length = 2 }; };

template <unsigned short G, unsigned short E> struct TypeTo;
template <> struct TypeTo<0,0> { enum { VR = VR2 }; enum { VM =
VM2 }; };
template <> struct TypeTo<0,1> { enum { VR = VR1 }; enum { VM =
VM_N }; };

template<unsigned short G, unsigned short E, int TVR =
TypeTo<G,E>::VR, int TVM = TypeTo<G,E>::VM >
class Attribute
{
public:
  void foo() { std::cout << "here" << std::endl; }
};

template<unsigned short G, unsigned short E, int TVR>
class Attribute<G,E,TVR,VM_N>
{
public:
  void foo() { std::cout << "there" << std::endl; }
};

int main()
{
  Attribute<0,0> a;
  a.foo();
  Attribute<0,1> b;
  b.foo();
  return 0;
}

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