Re: Type of template member functions.

From:
Ruslan Mullakhmetov <tiabaldu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:27:52 +0300
Message-ID:
<ibekml$uu9$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On 11/10/2010 1:34 AM, Johannes Schaub (litb) wrote:

Elias Salom??o Helou Neto wrote:

On 8 nov, 20:39, "Johannes Schaub (litb)"<schaub-johan...@web.de>
wrote:

Elias Salom??o Helou Neto wrote:

It will be a pointer to member. Only "A::member_function" - not preceeded
by& - will have the type of the member function, but that expression
must either be immediately followed by "()", or must unambiguously refer
to a static member function. In both cases, that expression would have
the type "void(const double&)", for the function type in your example.


Ok, now you've got the hole code:

#include<iostream>

template< class T>
class has_apply {

   typedef char yes[1];
   typedef char no[2];

   template< class U, U u>
   struct binder {};

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (U::*) ( const double& ),
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (U::*) ( const double& ) const,
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (*) ( const double& ),
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (U::*) ( double ),
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (U::*) ( double ) const,
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static yes& test( U*,
                     binder< void (*) ( double ),
                             &U::template apply< n>
                           >* = 0
                   );

   template< class U, unsigned n>
   static no& test( ... );

public:

   static const bool result = ( sizeof( yes ) == sizeof( test< T, 0u

( (T*)(0) ) ) );


};

class A {
public:
     template< unsigned n>
     void apply( const double& );

};

int main()
{
   std::cout<< std::boolalpha<< has_apply< A>::result<< '\n';
   return( 0 );
}

Run:

$g++ -Wall -o test test.cpp&& ./test
false

As it appears you have a static member function, it's clear why this
fails. So double check everything.


Your assumption is wrong, I do not have a static member function. Even
if I had, shouldn't the code above return true?


I tested your code and can't find any bug. Hmm, I suspect it's a GCC
problem.

For sure my assumption was wrong :)


Visual Studio 2008 do not compile this code with error
has_apply<T>::test': function call missing argument list; use
'&has_apply<T>::test' to create a pointer to member

and actually i do not understand how it works. I do not understand
sizeof( test< T, 0u > > ( (T*)(0) ) )

why compare result of test (reference to yes or no) with null pointer
casted to T*?

please, give any clue.

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