Re: determine if a type is a free function pointer

From:
Fei Liu <feiliu@aepnetworks.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:59:38 -0400
Message-ID:
<fc99fr$orp$1@aioe.org>
Victor Bazarov wrote:

Fei Liu wrote:

I am trying to experiment with typetraits such that I can determine
 if a type is a free function pointer type.


What's a "free function pointer"? One without the arguments? One that
is not a member of any class? One that is not a non-static member?


non class member function pointer. it could take arbitrary number of
arguments.

The following code
example works but it's not generic. As you can see, I have to
enumerate the function signatures. Is there a generic solution? (...
doesn't work btw).
Fei

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template <typename T>
class typetraits{
    template <typename U>
    struct is_free_func_ptr {
        enum { result = false };
    };

    template <typename U>
    struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)()>{
        enum { result = true };
    };

    template <typename U, typename V>
    struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)(V)>{
        enum { result = true };
    };

public:
    enum { result = is_free_func_ptr<T>::result };
};

void foo() { }
void foo(int) { }

struct f{
    void operator ()() const {}
};

int main(){
    typedef void (*foo_fp)();
    typedef int (*foo_fp2)(int);
    cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp>::result << endl;
    cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp2>::result << endl;
    cout << "result: " << typetraits<void *>::result << endl;
    cout << "result: " << typetraits<void>::result << endl;
    cout << "result: " << typetraits<f>::result << endl;
}


What output do you expect?


in this case the code works fine. But add the following code:
void foo(int, int) {}
typedef int (*foo_fp3)(int, int);
cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp3>::result << endl;

result is 0 although I expect it to be 1. I have searched the web,
books, etc. But I haven't found a generic technique to achieve what I
wanted.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template <typename T>
class typetraits{
     template <typename U>
     struct is_free_func_ptr {
         enum { result = false };
     };

     template <typename U>
     struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)()>{
         enum { result = true };
     };

     template <typename U, typename V>
     struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)(V)>{
         enum { result = true };
     };

public:
     enum { result = is_free_func_ptr<T>::result };
};

void foo() { }
void foo(int) { }
void foo(int,int) { }

struct f{
     void operator ()() const {}
};

int main(){
     typedef void (*foo_fp)();
     typedef int (*foo_fp2)(int);
     typedef int (*foo_fp3)(int,int);
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp>::result << endl;
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp2>::result << endl;
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp3>::result << endl;
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<void *>::result << endl;
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<void>::result << endl;
     cout << "result: " << typetraits<f>::result << endl;
}

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