Template instantiation problem in Android NDK gcc...

From:

Edoardo Tagome <edotgmREMOVE@THISgmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:08:21 +0200

Message-ID:

<l1a5qm$vab$1@virtdiesel.mng.cu.mi.it>

Hi,
    as usual I need your help to understand if a strange behaviour (in my
opinion) that android ndk gcc compiler show... comes from a compiler bug
or is a consequence of a undefined behaviour(?) that's a consequence of
my bad coding :-)

I only want to say that under windows (both VS2010 and mingw gcc4.7) the
behaviour is what I would expect (i.e. is correct form me).

As you can see (below OUTPUT) it seemd that under android there are two
instances of template class attibutes (mInt and mMap) where I would
expect only one (as in Windows).
In particular it seems to me that the references are considered a
different type than the referenced one (ok... somewhat :-D ).

BLABLABLA... meand I've substituted some long unuseful output with this :-)

As usual Thanks in advance!!! And I'm eager to know if and what I've
done wrong :-P

// For Android
#define MAGO_LOG_METHOD_DEBUG_PTR( aStr, aPtr ) \
__android_log_print( \
                      ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG , \
                      APPNAME , \
                      "%s %s %d %s %p" , \
                      __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ , \
                      __FILE__ , \
                      __LINE__ , \
                      aStr , \
                      aPtr \
                    )

// For Windows
#define MAGO_LOG_METHOD_DEBUG_PTR( aStr, aPtr ) \
std::cout << \
              APPNAME << " " << \
              __FUNCTION__ << " " << \
              __FILE__ << " " << \
              __LINE__ << " " << \
              aStr << \
              aPtr << " " << \
              std::endl

---- MaGoTest.hpp BEGIN ----

// Bas

template <class T>
class Bas
{

public:
         static void PrintAddresses( void )
         {
                 MAGO_LOG_METHOD_DEBUG_PTR( "&mInt=" , &mInt ) ;
                 MAGO_LOG_METHOD_DEBUG_PTR( "&mMap=" , &mMap ) ;
         }

protected:
         static int mInt ;
         static std::map< T * , std::shared_ptr< T > > mMap ;

} ;

template<class T>
int Bas<T>::mInt = 0 ;
template<class T>
std::map<T * , std::shared_ptr< T >> Bas<T>::mMap ;

// Deri

class Deri : public Bas< Deri >
{

public:
         Deri() ;

} ;

// Printer

class Printer
{

public:
         static void Print( Deri & aInstance ) ;

} ;

---- MaGoTest.hpp END ----

---- MaGoTest.cpp BEGIN ----

Deri::Deri()
{
         std::cout << "Deri constructor" << std::endl ;
}

void Printer::Print( Deri & aInstance )
{
         aInstance.PrintAddresses() ;
}

---- MaGoTest.cpp END ----

---- main.cpp BEGIN ----

#include "MaGoTest.hpp"

int main( void )
{
         Deri _firstDeri ;
         _firstDeri.PrintAddresses() ;
         Deri _secondDeri ;
         _secondDeri.PrintAddresses() ;

         Printer::Print( _firstDeri ) ;
         Printer::Print( _secondDeri ) ;

         return 0 ;
}

---- main.cpp END ----

---- OUTPUT Android ----

// Deri constructor should be here (is not logged)
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt= 0x5c99137c
// Deri constructor should be here (is not logged)
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap= 0x5c991360
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt= 0x5c99137c
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap= 0x5c991360
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... /MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt= 0x5c01a174 //(2nd
instance: STRANGE )
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap= 0x5c01a158 //(2nd
instance: STRANGE )
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt= 0x5c01a174
09-17 19:46:35.290: D/MaGo(13708): static void Bas<T>::PrintAddresses()
[with T = Deri] BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap= 0x5c01a158

---- OUTPUT Android END ----

---- OUTPUT Windows ----
Deri constructor
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt=0x405018 //(1
instance: CORRECT )
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap=0x40501c //(1
instance: CORRECT )
Deri constructor
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt=0x405018
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap=0x40501c
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt=0x405018
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap=0x40501c
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 59 &mInt=0x405018
MaGo PrintAddresses BLABLABLA... MaGoTest.hpp 60 &mMap=0x40501c
---- OUTPUT Windows END ----

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