Re: void (*) () == [](){} ? trouble with templates, lambda and pointer to function

From:
Bo Persson <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38:26 +0200
Message-ID:
<a4ldjvFe2iU1@mid.individual.net>
ybailly skrev 2012-06-23 09:46:

Greetings all,

Here's a problem I have, here reduced to the minimum I could get.
Please consider the following complete program:

   1 #include <iostream>
   2
   3 struct S
   4 {
   5 typedef void (*slot_t) ();
   6 };
   7
   8 template<typename T>
   9 struct ST
  10 {
  11 typedef T slot_t;
  12 };
  13
  14 void m(S::slot_t f)
  15 {
  16 std::cout << "::m(S::slot_t)\n";
  17 f();
  18 }
  19
  20 template<typename T>
  21 void m(typename ST<T>::slot_t f)
  22 {
  23 std::cout << "::m<T>(ST<T>::slot_t)\n";
  24 f();
  25 }
  26
  27 void ff()
  28 {
  29 std::cout << "::ff()\n";
  30 }
  31
  32 int main(int /*argc*/, char* /*argv*/[])
  33 {
  34 auto ll = [](){ std::cout << "main()::<lambda>()\n"; };
  35
  36 m(ff);
  37 m(ll);
  38 m<decltype(ll)>(ll);
  39
  40 return 0;
  41 }

Using GCC 4.6.3 and GCC 4.7.0, this program is compiled
using this command-line:
$ g++-4.7 -std=c++0x -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -o test.x test.cpp

Gives no error, no warning. When executed, I get:
$ ./text.x
::m(S::slot_t)
::ff()
::m(S::slot_t)
main()::<lambda>()
::m<T>(ST<T>::slot_t)
main()::<lambda>()

I assumed the call line 37 would be resolved in calling the template declared lines 20-25, but it just calls the global, non-template line 14. The call line 38 is the wanted behavior, though I would prefer to avoid giving the template parameter.

This makes me believe that the type of the lambda line 34 is the same as the type of the function ff() line 27 - or at least it can be converted to.
Is this correct?

How can I have the behavior like line 38, without giving explicitly the template parameter?


This has less to do with the type of the lambda, and more with type
deduction for the function template. The function

    20 template<typename T>
    21 void m(typename ST<T>::slot_t f)

is a "non-deducible context", meaning that the compiler cannot deduce T
from this without instantiating ALL possible S<T> and check for a member
typedef. So it doesn't, and calls the non-template function instead.

Only when you explicitly tell it what T is (on line 38) does it call the
function template.

Bo Persson

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