Re: Define pointer to member as a template

From:
ds <junkmailavoid@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:42:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<14444017-ca56-4c24-911e-a1b7c6791c22@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 16, 12:38 pm, Michael DOUBEZ <michael.dou...@free.fr> wrote:

ds a =E9crit :

template<class Tp>
std::map<std::string, Tp::ptr> themap<Tp>::smap;

though the typedef compiles, the specialization of the map fails.


You have to indicate that Tp::ptr is a type.

template<class Tp>
std::map<std::string, typename Tp::ptr> themap<Tp>::smap;

Michael


Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply. You would be correct if I did not actually
define the type! The problem is that

typedef int Tp::*ptr; defines a pointer to integer members of class
Tp. This line compiles fine as well. However, the next line (std::map
memberr) results in

'std::map' : 'Tp::ptr' is not a valid template type argument for
parameter '_Ty' on MSVC.

If I use the typename in the declaration and instantiation of the map
and then typedef the pointer in my classes, like in the following:

template<class Tp> class themap
{
public:
    static std::map<std::string, typename Tp::ptr> smap;
};
template<class Tp>
std::map<std::string,typename Tp::ptr> themap<Tp>::smap;

class test : public themap<test>
{
public:
    int a;
    int b;
    typedef int test::*ptr;
};

I get 'ptr' : is not a member of 'test'... plus that the point is to
have the typedef in the template.

Thanks a lot!

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