Re: Proposal: additional signature for mem_fn
terminator(jam) ha scritto:
I am affraid I cant understand it yet.Member function adress operator
does not return a polymorphic function,it just returns the address to
the function delared in the spicified class:
class base{
public:
virtual void foo();
};
class derived: public base{
public:
void foo();
};
derived d;
d.*(&base::foo)();//always calls base::foo but never derived::foo
I am afraid but that's totally wrong. In fact, derived::foo will be
called, *not* base::foo. If you don't believe me, just try it on any
decent compiler and you will have a very big surprise.
The fact is that a pointer-to-member-function is not just an address of
a function, but holds some extra data in order to correctly handle both
polymorphic and multiple inheritance. That's why on a typical 32-bit
platform sizeof(&base::foo) can be 8 or even 12 bytes even if a function
address can be represented in 4 bytes.
Ganesh
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